Maximum block size

[sortega]

Hello all,

I'm pretty new in this forum and this is my first topic --despite I've been reading some bits for a while-- so be easy on me.

After reading about the new transaction fees policy [1] in which it is explained that blocks have a maximum size of 250000 bytes I was surprised as in other points of the wiki it is explained to be 1 MB. Are miners generating smaller blocks now? Or is it only the default client behavior?

I suppose we can report the outdated parts if the limit has really changed.

Well, thanks in advance

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees

[Kluge]

For whatever reason, that wiki is very outdated in many sections, has many stubs, etc. - which is very unfortunate, because it's probably the first place a lot of people will go for info.

The max block size was increased to 1MB aeons ago. It will probably increase significantly by the time QT 1.0 is released.

[hiewan]

Yes, the max block size is 1 MB instead.

For example, the Block 272187 is 879 KB.
http://blockchain.info/block-index/443506/000000000000000483620734d32bde5211eb715ceb3cce1b9fe4b8c6dae71263

[sortega]

Thanks for your responses!