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From: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil.org>
To: rhavar@protonmail.com,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Increased blockspace enabled by SegWit limited to just witness data?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:39:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5E8E7227-8F90-40A2-B3D6-CA9D03CD3FEC@voskuil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9IZu22-jNUMzMcq7VK0qdzd2tj333lWOhOUe3A5V6OUaFlpQiS8lRFm-ZdGew4Im5KQ9qF4nF3WT3QugHMVrOi3Lr82FvyH9w-XG32NH7oQ=@protonmail.com>

As a soft fork, all preceding rules remain in effect. No rule has been “replaced”. Blocks must validate against pre-segwit rules or are invalid. Additional rules are applied that further restrict validity, and consider additional (witness) data in the context of the block.

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> On Feb 18, 2018, at 09:04, Ryan Havar via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> No, you are misunderstanding. The block size limit (1MB) has been replaced in favor of a block weight limit (4M weight). Bytes which must be sent to old clients are weighted at 4 units each which is what allows it to be a soft fork.
> 
> So as such, there's not two separate limits or anything. 
> 
> P.S. what's up with your signature lol
> 
> 
> ​-Ryan
> 
> ​
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
>> On February 18, 2018 11:26 AM, CANNON via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
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>> I have a question in reference to the increased blockspace enabled
>> by the segregated witness upgrade. Is this extra blockspace beyond
>> the legacy 1 MB limit limited to just witness data?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cannon
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-18 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-18 16:26 [bitcoin-dev] Increased blockspace enabled by SegWit limited to just witness data? CANNON
2018-02-18 16:57 ` Austin Maier
2018-02-18 17:04 ` rhavar
2018-02-18 18:39   ` Eric Voskuil [this message]
2018-02-18 19:04     ` rhavar
2018-02-18 19:14       ` Eric Voskuil

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