7 sats \ 1 reply \ @super_testnet OP 11 Aug 2022 \ on: How segwit increased the block size without a hard fork bitcoin
For those interested, the code for the soft fork in bitcoin core was merged in this code change in 2016.
When github displays a code change it highlights any code that was removed in red and it highlights any code that was added in green. The code that was removed says this:
/** The maximum allowed size for a serialized block, in bytes (network rule) */
static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 1000000;
The code that was added says this:
/** The maximum allowed size for a serialized block, in bytes (only for buffer size limits) */
static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SERIALIZED_SIZE = 4000000;
Notice that the block size used to be 1 megabyte but it changed to 4 megabytes. Segwit definitely included a block size increase.
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18 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 12 Aug 2022
Turns out, when we say 1MB in bitcoin, we really mean 1MB (not 1 MiB).
I always thought it's using powers of 2 even though it's using MB instead of MiB.
Interesting!
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