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Episode 72: Inscriptions

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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How to Get Around the Opera Turn Limit?

With opera turn, if you provide it directly to a miner, there's no limit. You can make as far as I know, a one megabyte or slightly less opera turn transaction. But for the same cost, you can make a four megabyte inscription. So basically, if you don't use any witness data, your block size is one million times four. That's what these weight units come in. If you're creating a transaction, a block has to be a maximum of four million weight units.

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