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Running a fully verifying node doesn't require that much space, since you can prune away older blocks once verified (if you're fine with not being able to seed
by tromp 6y ago
Running a fully verifying node doesn't require that much space, since you can prune away older blocks once verified (if you're fine with not being able to seed other nodes).
It does take a fair amount of time to download so many GB of history.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoThis is not true in any sense. After 11 years of use, a $10 vps can download the entire chain in under an hour and a half. A fast cable modem connection can do it in under three hours. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is 231 GB, the bitcoin chain is 381 GB. Call of Duty + Red Dead Redemption 2 = bitcoin's entire chain. This is about $6 USD of hard drive space. The throughput of bitcoin is about 1.5 -kilobytes- per second. At that speed reddit.com would take 36 minutes to load.
- tromp 6y agoYou need to verify the history as well and continually update the UTXO set. That takes a lot more time, especially with a spinning hard disk, since the UTXO updates are not particularly sequential.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoFirst, that isn't what you actually said. Also no it doesn't. It takes a fraction of a second on a single core for each block. It's 900KB for a full block. The only reason it would take a long time is a particular client using CPUs extremely inefficiently and leaving them idle most of the time.