# witness discount

URL: https://blockspace.wiki/glossary/witness-discount/

SegWit's 4× weight reduction on witness data. BVT reads it as a price subsidy, not a capacity increase: the same scarce bytes sold at a quarter of the price through one door. Bytes ÷ vbytes measures how much of it a protocol takes.

Sources:

- Blockspace Value Theory · https://block.space/docs/bvt
- block.space docs: data types · https://block.space/docs/datatypes
- block.space docs: measurements · https://block.space/docs/measurements

Updated: 2026-10-20