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1// Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
2// Copyright (c) 2009-present The Bitcoin Core developers
3// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
4// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
5
6#include <policy/settings.h>
7
8#include <policy/policy.h>
9
10unsigned int nBytesPerSigOp = DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_SIGOP;
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The runtime bytes-per-signature-operation setting

This implementation file defines one global policy variable. It initializes storage for the declaration elsewhere rather than implementing transaction checks itself.

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Start from the policy default

nBytesPerSigOp begins at DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_SIGOP. Callers use the setting when accounting for signature-operation resources in policy virtual size. This single assignment is not a fee estimate, consensus activation or a live measurement of transaction bytes.

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