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.
e > On Feb 18, 2018, at 09:04, Ryan Havar via bitcoin-dev > <[email protected]> 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 protected]> wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> 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 >> PGP Fingerprint: 2BB5 15CD 66E7 4E28 45DC 6494 A5A2 2879 3F06 E832 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> NOTICE: ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE NOT SIGNED/ENCRYPTED WITH PGP SHOULD >> BE CONSIDERED POTENTIALLY FORGED, AND NOT PRIVATE. >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJaiajLAAoJEAYDai9lH2mwDbMQAKgJseZG9oOoP9WJlESFdAzm >> jLM69KLF4RVWDQjMWCtyVayyolXMLavW6fL4GL7/ztLYSl9Pz+FDlH3Qgo1GLDx4 >> fRUkmb0ApLBSAjmdqM+kWjgq3s6/oZaIkNxGeyK5SYY4QhF80Z42PWLBPKjAc7vn >> pe7Im13NwtyJiRuCmq4e1z6GmW86fFOKOsR4rlWcftHOFmH8Gz5d9KK9LbPqU6Ca >> +rde8yb+A9uXEv3O9MqeLId7FYSJixgzFGJosidVkAVQI7YZ0TAfG4HSwKjtqDz7 >> SW2Bs3nDeiCr2QN7Su9TUaoSN/yKTBOw5jnql9cNOYuf4GAG0MXWinmYP8MWCiqh >> bIrzvOnlZGapX/36Fpab67VDcFnXJJc8ofqYmn+oUoW/q7geQpu/V1oz+AR9nD/d >> n8wFxvZdRlTbq2XDXySaontxNH0rd80fSG5SJtO5Js9hK/vNG+Xa7Zc+76gEtvlF >> 5G1F6MOcsoXUDCnMteuNxaZx6TPML6RuWVmbR1wXOaX4qZ01p7AsjQlTIcrlVDsB >> LVGW70wjfETBCffn1JQvFmIK7NzggIUuYfLF0IrfM4BrTa/01RnmfBOpWGiIvyIG >> qZqKLYDbW7BDkc/HMtAonR/0t6bTUv/388USSnbMakO9bvih0xxIw4NWTyoSoef/ >> I+W6ny7qXt+pegLF4cYL >> =YqEM >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
