weight unit

Also: WU, weight units, block weight

The unit of the block limit (BIP 141): every non-witness byte costs 4 WU and every witness byte 1 WU, so weight = stripped size × 3 + total size. A block may hold 4,000,000 WU.

Used by: block.space, scribb.it

Used on #

• Block weight and the limit
• The witness discount
• Vbytes
• Why blockspace is scarce
• Fee rate
• Relay policy
• Weight units and vbytes
• The witness discount
• block
• scribb.it
• 4 MB transaction relay

Sources #

1. block.space docs: data types · block.space/docs/datatypes
2. Blockspace Value Theory · block.space/docs/bvt