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The current BTC blockchain size is 422GB [1] so that easily fits on a single 1TB SSD. How is that "too large" ? [1] https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/ h

• runeks 5y ago
  You can easily store the blockchain (which is mostly historical data, ie. “empty accounts”) on an old (rotational) HDD because you access it in a sequential manner, which is fine for old HDDs. It’s only the set of “non-empty accounts” (unspent transaction outputs in technical terms) that you need random access to. But this data can be stored in RAM since it’s only about 3.5GiB.
• krageon 5y ago
  Who has ~250 euros (excluding the machine this SSD has to be in) to drop on a random hobby?
  • haakon 5y ago
    It doesn't have to be an SSD. My node runs on a regular, inexpensive mechanical disk.
  • glenvdb 5y ago
    Bitcoiners Thousands of people are doing it and these sorts of things make it easy to do: https://getumbrel.com/ https://getumbrel.com/ https://start9.com/ https://start9.com/
• sam0x17 5y ago
  Anything over 40 GB is impractical for wide-scale distribution that would create a healthy network, and really anything over 2 GB is problematic and will have a much narrower reach. This is evidenced by the fact that almost no one these days actually runs a local wallet. The number of logical nodes has decreased while the number of wallets has dramatically increased.