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Board Electrum
Re: How accurate is the fee estimation in Electrum?
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nc50lc
on 23/09/2020, 04:26:53 UTC
Nope. Each block theoractically can accommodate 1MB of transaction.
If I'm not wrong, theoretically the size of every block can be up to 4 MB.
The block size cannot be bigger than 1 MB if all transactions in the block include only legacy addresses. If Segwit addresses are used, the block size can be bigger than 1 MB.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Right, 4MB maximum block size is based from the "Weight" so more SegWit transactions will make a block higher than 1MB in disk.
But the maximum block size in virtual Bytes is 1vMB.

But to support ranochigo's post: Since we're talking about Electrum's fee estimation, we have to use the "1 (virtual) MB" limit when using "mempool fee estimation".
Electrum actually computes the vBytes of its transactions but they are displayed as Bytes.