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		olejorgenb on Feb 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as paym... Details: > Blocks size in blockchain is limited to 1MB. Miners can mine blocks up to the 1MB fixed limit, but any block larger than 1MB is invalid. This limit cannot be modified without a hard fork. https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy

Vecr on Feb 9, 2021 [–]

Not exactly true anymore, it's 1MB "virtual", yeah, but segregated witness bytes are worth 0.75 other bytes, so the actual value can go over.

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