Support for the Bitcoin scalability upgrade Segregated Witness (SegWit), which is designed to make transaction fees slower and transactions times faster on the Bitcoin network, was added to the latest Bitcoin Core client version released on Feb. 15, 2018.
SegWit support was also added to major exchange Bitfinex on February 21st, and scheduled to be released on the exchange and wallet platform Coinbase by next week.
This is why we're starting to see lower Bitcoin transaction fees and transactions getting confirmed faster. SegWit is a big step for Bitcoin's development, everyone's been waiting for it since years ago and it's finally here.
These are good news for Bitcoin as a blockchain in general, since we know that the biggest problem Bitcoin has it's the fees and slow confirmation times. That's why I think this is a big step forward.
