From dde47fc973b015c6cc91a0ed28fb3aca57add5e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Chow <achow101@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:47:36 -0400
Subject: Update to NODE_WITNESS service bit

---
 bip-0144.mediawiki | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bip-0144.mediawiki')

diff --git a/bip-0144.mediawiki b/bip-0144.mediawiki
index 2da222c..f2c8857 100644
--- a/bip-0144.mediawiki
+++ b/bip-0144.mediawiki
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ Currently, the only witness objects type supported are script witnesses which co
 * '''Rationale for the 0x01 flag byte in between''': this will allow us to easily add more extra non-committed data to transactions (like txouts being spent, ...). It can be interpreted as a bitvector.
 
 === Handshake ===
-A new message 'havewitness' is sent after receiving 'verack' to
-indicate that a node can provide witness if requested (similar to
-'sendheaders') (Note: it might be better to signal this with a services bit in the version message)
+A node will signal that it can provide witnesses using the following service bit
+
+    NODE_WITNESS = (1 << 3)
+	
 
 === Hashes ===
 Transaction hashes used in the transaction merkle tree and txin outpoints are always computed using the old non-witness
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