CryptoNote coins (BCN, Aeon, XMR, Monero...) and blockchain size - Trouble? - page 2.

aeoncurrency

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Quote from: Qastessa on December 18, 2015, 07:37:39 AM

Will the change of the block time from 1 min to 2 min or longer reduce the bloating rate of block chain size?

Yes and (longer than one minute) block times have already been implemented in several CryptoNote coins including Aeon and Boolberry.

Monero will have two minute block times with its next release (0.9 which is now in beta).

aeoncurrency

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Quote from: robolove on July 04, 2014, 10:34:52 AM

I, along with many others, am fascinated with CryptoNote coins, such as Aeon, but see an obvious problem with no apparent solution: the astronomical size of the blockchains.

Bitcoin has existed since 2009, and its blockchain is around 20 GB, which is manageable.

Aeon has been out for 38 days, and its blockchain is nearly 1 GB. Ouch.

This is clearly not sustainable. Am I missing something fundamental, or are CryptoNote coins doomed because of this design flaw?

This is potentially a long term concern but there are solutions available.

Aeon introduced a pruning test release in August https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12272943

Boolberry has had pruning since last year http://boolberry.org/files/Boolberry_Reduces_Blockchain_Bloat.pdf

There are some technical differences in the way Aeon and Boolberry handle pruning. Monero has plenty time to decide when and if it wants to introduce pruning and if so how it should be done.

At this point there are more pressing development priorities than the size of the blockchain.

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Quote from: Andretti83 on December 18, 2015, 05:38:32 AM

Quote from: Snail2 on December 18, 2015, 05:31:17 AM

Quote from: DaveyJones on December 18, 2015, 04:45:07 AM

Quote from: Luwonder on December 18, 2015, 04:17:57 AM

The size of the Cryptnote wallet also grows very fast. It is easy to reach 20MB. Is there a way to reduce the wallet size?

How is 20MB nowadays a problem? Shocked

But to answer your question the wallet file is just your scanned blockchain file, what matters is the .keys file for your coins... so you could possibly delete that if its to big for your and rescan everytime you want to use it Cheesy

I guess he mistyped something. Probably that 20MB actually means 20GB.

No, he means something like cache for wallet file. It has the same name as wallet and can reach 20 MB.

The real wallet file (*.keys) is less than 1 KB in size (mine is 544 bytes).

I see. Probably you are right. A couple of dozens of megabytes shouldn't be a problem (even on a mobile device) in these days, indeed.

Qastessa

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Will the change of the block time from 1 min to 2 min or longer reduce the bloating rate of block chain size?

cryptodromeda

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FFS... July 2014??

I think we need to devise a Bladerunner-style replicant test to determine whether someone is a concern troll.

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Quote from: Snail2 on December 18, 2015, 05:31:17 AM

Quote from: DaveyJones on December 18, 2015, 04:45:07 AM

Quote from: Luwonder on December 18, 2015, 04:17:57 AM

The size of the Cryptnote wallet also grows very fast. It is easy to reach 20MB. Is there a way to reduce the wallet size?

How is 20MB nowadays a problem? Shocked

But to answer your question the wallet file is just your scanned blockchain file, what matters is the .keys file for your coins... so you could possibly delete that if its to big for your and rescan everytime you want to use it Cheesy

I guess he mistyped something. Probably that 20MB actually means 20GB.

No, he means something like cache for wallet file. It has the same name as wallet and can reach 20 MB.

The real wallet file (*.keys) is less than 1 KB in size (mine is 544 bytes).

Snail2

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Quote from: DaveyJones on December 18, 2015, 04:45:07 AM

Quote from: Luwonder on December 18, 2015, 04:17:57 AM

The size of the Cryptnote wallet also grows very fast. It is easy to reach 20MB. Is there a way to reduce the wallet size?

How is 20MB nowadays a problem? Shocked

But to answer your question the wallet file is just your scanned blockchain file, what matters is the .keys file for your coins... so you could possibly delete that if its to big for your and rescan everytime you want to use it Cheesy

I guess he mistyped something. Probably that 20MB actually means 20GB.

DaveyJones

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Quote from: Luwonder on December 18, 2015, 04:17:57 AM

The size of the Cryptnote wallet also grows very fast. It is easy to reach 20MB. Is there a way to reduce the wallet size?

How is 20MB nowadays a problem? Shocked

But to answer your question the wallet file is just your scanned blockchain file, what matters is the .keys file for your coins... so you could possibly delete that if its to big for your and rescan everytime you want to use it Cheesy

Luwonder

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The size of the Cryptnote wallet also grows very fast. It is easy to reach 20MB. Is there a way to reduce the wallet size?

robolove

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I, along with many others, am fascinated with CryptoNote coins, such as Aeon, but see an obvious problem with no apparent solution: the astronomical size of the blockchains.

Bitcoin has existed since 2009, and its blockchain is around 20 GB, which is manageable.

Aeon has been out for 38 days, and its blockchain is nearly 1 GB. Ouch.

This is clearly not sustainable. Am I missing something fundamental, or are CryptoNote coins doomed because of this design flaw?

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