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> The block size for Bitcoin is 4MB, not 1MB, too. No it's not. Segwit introduced a new concept called block weight that's larger than 1MB, and in practice wit
by lawn 7y ago
> The block size for Bitcoin is 4MB, not 1MB, too.
No it's not. Segwit introduced a new concept called block weight that's larger than 1MB, and in practice with normal transactions it gives around 1.4MB.
- grapehut 7y agoYou're both correct-ish. The constraint on blocks is that they must "weigh" less than 4 million units. Most of time blocks that weigh that much are going to be around 1.4MB (or what ever) but in an absolute worst case would be a size of 4MB by a specially crafted transaction