This Bitcoin Developer Is Working Hard to Prepare Projects for Segregated Witness

By April 22, 2016Bitcoin Business

Nicolas Dorier is the main developer behind NBitcoin , which is a comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework. NBitcoin is used in the backend of multiple Bitcoin services such as Lykke , BitKong , Teambrella and BTCTrader .

Recently, Dorier has been working on various projects intended to assist developers who wish to implement the upcoming Segregated Witness (SegWit) improvement in their own wallets, exchanges and other Bitcoin-related services. Dorier, who is also a Bitcoin Core contributor, updated his book on Bitcoin programming to show people how to use SegWit in NBitcoin and also released a number of developer tools, such as checktx and checkscript , to help developers better understand how SegWit transactions work.

In addition to his work on these developer resources, Dorier has (perhaps more importantly) implemented SegWit in NBitcoin and bitcoinj . In a recent interview with Bitcoin Magazine , Dorier shared his thoughts on Segregated Witness and how it will affect the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Thoughts on the Adoption of SegWit by Bitcoin Services

Many have said Segregated Witness is a set of complex code that will be difficult for wallets and other Bitcoin services to implement, but Dorier does not see things that way. The NBitcoin developer agrees with Bitcoin Core contributor Eric Lombrozo that it should take less than a week to implement this Bitcoin improvement. Dorier explained: “Most of the users use abstractions above raw Bitcoin transaction programming with the classes Coin, ScripCoin and TransactionBuilder. Programmers using that don’t really have to know how SegWit works, as it is similar to normal P2PKH or P2SH payments.” To illustrate his point, Dorier noted that Smartbit , an Australian Bitcoin exchange, was able to add support for SegNet (the Segregated Witness test network) in less than an hour. Dorier explained how this was possible:

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