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Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges Halve Bitcoin Withdrawal Fees Due to SegWit

Joseph Young by Joseph Young
3 years ago
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Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges Halve Bitcoin Withdrawal Fees Due to SegWit
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Some of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the global market including Binance and Kraken have halved bitcoin withdrawal fees due to the rising adoption of scaling solution and transaction malleability fix Segregated Witness (SegWit).

SegWit Adoption

Last week, Coinbase, a major bitcoin brokerage and wallet platform with over 12 million users, along with leading cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex enabled SegWit and transaction batching, to significantly reduce bitcoin transaction fees and relieve congestion on the bitcoin blockchain network.

On February 23, Coinbase Vice President Dan Romero stated that the company will also focus on the development and integration of emerging technologies and second-layer solutions like Lightning.

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“New technologies which require SegWit, like the Lightning Network, have the potential to significantly increase the usefulness of Bitcoin as a payment network and benefit customers. We currently have a dedicated full-time software engineer working on open source contributions to the Lightning Network,” said Romero.

Since then, the adoption of SegWit has risen from 13 percent to around 30 percent, by nearly 3-fold within a period of several days. As the largest bitcoin wallet platform in the world, Coinbase accounts for a large portion of bitcoin’s daily transaction volume. The integration of SegWit by Blockchain, the second largest bitcoin wallet platform in the market, is expected to increase SegWit adoption further, in the short-term.

Kraken and Binance

Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the global market with a $1.9 billion daily trading volume, along with a major San Francisco-based cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken halved bitcoin withdrawal fees, due to the rapid adoption of SegWit and decreasing transaction fees.

On March 1, Kraken stated, “effective immediately, withdrawal fees on Bitcoin (XBT) are reduced to 0.0005, and withdrawal fees on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) are reduced to 0.0001.”

On March 2, following the path of Kraken, Binance announced, “Binance is happy to announce a 50 percent reduction in $BTC withdrawal fees. Effective immediately, BTC withdrawal fees are only 0.0005 BTC.”

If more cryptocurrency exchanges processing billions of dollars worth of trades on a daily basis continue to integrate SegWit and transaction batching, in the short-term, bitcoin transaction fees could drop substantially.

Although the fees of bitcoin could rise again as its price spikes after a long recovery and its transaction volume surges to its previous levels, SegWit and transaction batching are expected to work as short-term solutions, while developers and businesses seek towards integrating second-layer scaling solutions.

Peter Todd, a bitcoin developer and respected cryptography consultant, stated that the integration of Lightning could turn out to be too complex, and the current implementation of Lightning could be vulnerable to DoS attacks.

“As for the Lightning protocol, I’m willing to predict it’ll prove to be vulnerable to DoS attacks in its current incarnation, both at the P2P and blockchain level. While bad politics, focusing on centralized hub-and-spoke payment channels first would have been much simpler,” Todd wrote.

Hence, if developers and businesses continue to go down the path of Lightning to scale the Bitcoin network, it will require significant work by both the businesses and developers in the open-source community of bitcoin to practically implement Lightning.

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Joseph is a web developer and designer, writer and a passionate musician who loves to travel often. He's worked as a researcher for a number of venture capital firms and as a freelancer designer for resorts and corporations in Korea and the Philippines.

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