Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why did we raise the Blocksize limit?
by
yaffare
on 08/09/2013, 08:25:35 UTC
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/9d2174b6f5f3fac2463c7ebc2dbb9004b3740d23

this is version 0.3.1 rc1

you can find this line here
Code:
static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 1000000;

before it was
Code:
static const unsigned int MAX_SIZE = 0x02000000;

if you convert 2000000 from hex to dec =  33,554,432 bytes = 32MB

also here:
"Because blocksize limit was lowered from 32 MB to 1 MB by Satoshi in early days of Bitcoin."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251877.msg2679268#msg2679268