diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index e1a097335..2e9d95445 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -1002,15 +1002,15 @@ bool AcceptToMemoryPool(CTxMemPool& pool, CValidationState &state, const CTransa
 
         // Check that the transaction doesn't have an excessive number of
         // sigops, making it impossible to mine. Since the coinbase transaction
-        // itself can contain sigops MAX_TX_SIGOPS is less than
+        // itself can contain sigops MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIGOPS is less than
         // MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS; we still consider this an invalid rather than
         // merely non-standard transaction.
         unsigned int nSigOps = GetLegacySigOpCount(tx);
         nSigOps += GetP2SHSigOpCount(tx, view);
-        if (nSigOps > MAX_TX_SIGOPS)
+        if (nSigOps > MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIGOPS)
             return state.DoS(0,
                              error("AcceptToMemoryPool : too many sigops %s, %d > %d",
-                                   hash.ToString(), nSigOps, MAX_TX_SIGOPS),
+                                   hash.ToString(), nSigOps, MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIGOPS),
                              REJECT_NONSTANDARD, "bad-txns-too-many-sigops");
 
         CAmount nValueOut = tx.GetValueOut();
diff --git a/src/main.h b/src/main.h
index 1e0011476..2b260a665 100644
--- a/src/main.h
+++ b/src/main.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE/50;
 /** Maximum number of signature check operations in an IsStandard() P2SH script */
 static const unsigned int MAX_P2SH_SIGOPS = 15;
 /** The maximum number of sigops we're willing to relay/mine in a single tx */
-static const unsigned int MAX_TX_SIGOPS = MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS/5;
+static const unsigned int MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIGOPS = MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS/5;
 /** Default for -maxorphantx, maximum number of orphan transactions kept in memory */
 static const unsigned int DEFAULT_MAX_ORPHAN_TRANSACTIONS = 100;
 /** The maximum size of a blk?????.dat file (since 0.8) */