The SegWit resource limit that counts base transaction data four times and witness data once, capped at four million units.
Block weight is best understood as part of a system rather than as an isolated definition. Its related coordinates show the mechanisms, incentives and historical records that give the term practical meaning.
Block weight sits between protocol rules, economic incentives and software operated by independent participants. In Bitcoin, no component is authoritative by itself: miners propose history, fully validating nodes enforce validity, and users decide which rules and software they accept.
Understanding Block weight helps distinguish a verifiable Bitcoin mechanism or historical record from slogans, products and market narratives.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Segregated Witness, Virtual byte (vbyte), Witness data, Blocksize War. The reverse links also lead from Virtual byte (vbyte), Witness data.
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Grounded in a source record
Explains function and trade-offs
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