The SegWit discount of 4x is arbitrary though.
Pre-SegWit nodes see SegWit transactions as anyone-can-spend "unsigned" transactions, so they don't know of signatures and the weight thereof. They do count the bytes of OP_RETURN though as it's not segregated.
Leo Wandersleb
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2023-12-06 18:23:47
in reply to nevent1q…0agz
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