<p>520 bytes for name_update to work</p>

<p><a href="http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=503" rel="nofollow">http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=503</a></p>

<p>It should be twice that amount but there is some bug.</p>

<p>As you can read in the forum thread some planning is going on to increase it to 9kb. </p>

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<p>This is quite a basic question.</p>

<p>Namecoin allows any arbitrary text as data:value pairs. How big can the data be? 100 bytes? 1 MB? I am not sure.</p>

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What is the size limit in namecoin transaction?
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# What is the size limit in namecoin transaction?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-02-14)

This is quite a basic question.

Namecoin allows any arbitrary text as data:value pairs. How big can the data be? 100 bytes? 1 MB? I am not sure.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-02-14. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

520 bytes for name\_update to work

<http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=503>

It should be twice that amount but there is some bug.

As you can read in the forum thread some planning is going on to increase it to 9kb.


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