Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 Weight Units).
To be more precise, maximum block size was 1MB before SegWit activation (August 2017) and now it's 4 million weight units (some people also refer it as 4 kWu).
Topic: Why the block height do not correspod to bitcoin core database size? (Read 115 times)
April 11, 2022, 07:58:55 AM
Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 Weight Units).
To be more precise, maximum block size was 1MB before SegWit activation (August 2017) and now it's 4 million weight units (some people also refer it as 4 kWu).
Most of the first thousands blocks are empty and the rest (until Bitcoin became famous) only have a small number of transactions included,
so their size are only a few kB.
so their size are only a few kB.
Or rather few hundred bytes.
April 11, 2022, 05:02:42 AM
Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 million Weight Units).
Most of the first thousands blocks are empty and the rest (until Bitcoin became famous) only have a small number of transactions included,
so their size are only a few kB.
For example: Block #1000 doesn't have any transaction in it aside from the coinbase txn; its size is only 0.216 kB.
Most of the first thousands blocks are empty and the rest (until Bitcoin became famous) only have a small number of transactions included,
so their size are only a few kB.
For example: Block #1000 doesn't have any transaction in it aside from the coinbase txn; its size is only 0.216 kB.
April 11, 2022, 04:43:49 AM
Hello all,
If current block height is ~731378
And as I understand it bitcoin block is 1 MB
731378 blocks = 731378 MB
731378/1024 ~714 GB
But the current up-to-date block is about 500 GB.
How did this size difference possible?
Or
Where am I getting it wrong?
If current block height is ~731378
And as I understand it bitcoin block is 1 MB
731378 blocks = 731378 MB
731378/1024 ~714 GB
But the current up-to-date block is about 500 GB.
How did this size difference possible?
Or
Where am I getting it wrong?
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