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This 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
by CyberDildonics 6y ago
This 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.