This is an intentional design decision in SegWit.
As it is not part of the “main block” data and is segregated, it allowed increasing the effective block size without breaking old clients.
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-07-12 22:58:10 UTC
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npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjPublished at
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