Nick Hansen (Luxor) on Ordinals, Blockspace, and Mining Pools (EP.407)
On The Brink with Castle Island
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How to Mine a Bigger Bitcoin Transaction
The theoretical limit for you, the theoretical limit that you can mine that you can build a transaction is four megabytes. So we made a small change to Bitcoin to accept those transactions and then injected it directly into our own mem pool at the mining pool level. We removed that filter for ourselves just because we wanted to it's a little bit more provocative. And so yeah, when that block was mined is the biggest block ever mined by a pool ever and still is.
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