Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Increased blockspace enabled by SegWit limited to just witness data?

From: Eric Voskuil <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:39:09 -0800

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 <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]> 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?
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>> Cannon
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