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Well that and the fact that the Bitcoin blockchain is now nearly 600GB.

• mensetmanusman 2y ago
  Has anyone predicted its size over the next 100 years?
  • BetaDeltaAlpha 2y ago
    New blocks are capped at 4096 bytes (plus some metadata), figure one every 10 minutes and there's your growth rate. It's slower than the growth of storage/$$$
    • radlad 2y ago
      Of course if you're buying a 14" Macbook Pro, the upgrade to 2TB will cost you $400. Or $1,000 if you want 4TB (on top of the cost of upgrading the processor to the Max chip - necessary for that option.)
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• dboreham 2y ago
  A mere bagatelle. Check the size of Ethereum.
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  • radlad 2y ago
    If I'm reading and understanding correctly, it looks like Ethereum's blockchain is 18TB, but you only need to download about 1.1TB if pruning: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4444 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4444
    • taxmeifyoucan 2y ago
      It's not actually pruning, the full node is really around 1TB. That 18TB number comes from old naive design for an archive node. Archive is basically cached state after each historical block. The 1.1tb full node can generate all this data by executing blocks and the current generation of archive nodes can store it around 3TB instead of 18TB.