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Since the scriptSig of the coinbase transaction of a block can contain arbitrary data, what is the maximum number of bytes it can contain? I've seen various mentions of a limit around 100 bytes, but can't find that defined anywhere.

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The maximum is 100 bytes and is checked and defined here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/consensus/tx_verify.cpp#L195

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