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Topic: Blockchain size, exponential growth? - page 3. (Read 8505 times)

legendary
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Beyond Imagination
July 20, 2012, 03:26:02 AM
#3
I don't understand the technical details, but look at the blockchain size chart:
https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size

if all the transactions are recorded in blockchain, it will surely grow out of the capacity of any hard disk in one year, after another year, it will grow out of the capacity of any storage server farm I know. This has to be solved as soon as possible

Any client should only interested in those transactions related to his own account, for other transactions he can use block explorer to search, maybe someone from a bank can explain how bank handle huge amount of transaction records?
legendary
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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer
July 20, 2012, 02:51:50 AM
#2
You might find this useful: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/client-blockchain-package-download-94102

(the other choice is to use an alternative client)
legendary
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Beyond Imagination
July 20, 2012, 02:48:07 AM
#1
I don't understand why the blockchain has grown exponentially in the latest months, with that huge size of the database on hard drive, it's getting difficult to convince new users to start to use it: They have to wait a whole day to download the block chain.

Is there any light client which download only latest part of blockchain and verify the rest part using only a checksum?
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