What Does "Activation" Actually Mean In Bitcoin?
What Does "Activation" Actually Mean In Bitcoin? During the multiple issues with Bitcoin this year with soft and hard forks, and Segwit, I have read as much as I can about how all these changes are "deployed", eg BIP9, BIP91, BIP148, BIP's 141-146. However no matter how much I read I am still confused by it all and the terminology, such as "locking in", "signalling", "activation", "deployment". I understand Segwit was implemented in v0.13.1 (and above) of Bitcoin Core which was released on 27/10/2016. So all the Segwit changes have been in the Bitcoin Core software since that date ? So when "activation" of Segwit occurred - did that mean a flag within the Bitcoin client, say "ACTIVATION_FLAG", became true and then the Segwit functionality thus started to run - because it is contained inside an "if" block :- if (ACTIVATION_FLAG) { do Segwit stuff } However Segwit is a complex...