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Re: Wondering out loud: Which should Chinese miners support - Core, Classic or another?
by
sturle
on 30/01/2016, 13:22:30 UTC
All miners mine 1MB now - There is no miner who has the balls to disrespect the Satoshi Nakamoto 1MB rule and mine a large block.
Acutally not.  Some of the miners on the 2 MB block size support list mine blocks of 912 or 976 KB.  If they really want larger blocks, they could at least produce 1 MB blocks.
MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 1 000 000 bytes
1 000 000 bytes / 1024 = 976,56 bytes

So current (EDIT:) maximum blocksize limit is 976 kibibytes or 1000 kilobytes. That is the source of "976".
Wrong.  I know the fscking difference between KiB, MiB and kB, MB, and I am not mixing them up.

Have a look at Blockcypher yourself when there is a congestion.  Someone have turned down the spam volume now, so blocks are less than half full anyway.  Blockcypher give the size in bytes.  Blockchain.info use kB (= 1000 bytes).