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Says it comes with a 128 GB SD card with the current blockchain. How long until a copy of the full blockchain is > 128 GB?
by oxalo 11y ago
Says it comes with a 128 GB SD card with the current blockchain. How long until a copy of the full blockchain is > 128 GB?
- newobj 11y agoGood question. Not too long now: https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address= https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all&show...
- marcell 11y agoHistorical data [1] shows 25GB annual growth, and currently the blockchain is around 50GB, so that gives us an expected 3 years. Current max theoretical is ~50GB annual, if every block is the max 1MB. There is an ongoing debate about whether to increase the max block size. [1] https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=1year&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address= https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=1year&sh...
- austenallred 11y agoRelated question: How much will a 256 GB SD card cost when we reach that level?