so,
One of Bitcoin’s weirdest engineering tricks! 🎩✨
Bitcoin did increase the block size with SegWit in 2017 but they can’t officially call it that because of backward compatibility with old nodes.
👉 It’s still called a "1 MB block" for old nodes.
👉 It actually stores up to ~4 MB of data.
👉 This works because Bitcoin Core changed how block space is "counted" (Weight Units instead of bytes).
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2025-02-08 08:24:24
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2025-02-08 08:24:24Event JSON
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