Bitcoin block size limit is a Bitcoin configuration feature that limits Bitcoin block volume and hence the number of transactions to be verified in the network within 10 minutes. About the fact that Bitcoin was released without this constraint, Satoshi Nakamoto added a 1-megabyte block size limit while he was already the project’s lead creator. Depending on the scale of the transactions, this converted to around three to seven transactions per second.
The block size cap in Bitcoin was substituted in 2017 by a network recommended weight of 4 million value units. This altered the way data in blocks is “counted”: certain data has a larger weight than others. Maybe more specifically, it reflected a successful block size cap increase.
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