Protocol & Consensus • Estimated 55m

Block Weight and Virtual Bytes

protocol.block-weight-vbytes

How weight units and vbytes price block space after SegWit.

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Curated resources (3)

• BIP 141: Block Weight Rules (article) Weight metric and witness discount definition.
• Bitcoin Developer Guide: Transactions (article) Transaction sizing and fee calculation context.
• Bitcoin Developer Reference: Transactions (article) Field-level transaction structure reference used for vsize/weight reasoning.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Block Structure
• Segregated Witness (SegWit)

Direct dependents (0)

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