Topic: How big is a bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 2324 times)

Well, perhaps the way to put a size on it is to determine how much does the blockchain grows once a new Bitcoin is generated. The size of that initial transaction that creates the Bitcoin might be considered the "base" size of a Bitcoin.

If all Bitcoins were mined and they were not transferred (just locally to the miner's wallet) blockchain will still have a certain size. If we divided that size by the number of bitcoins... would not that be the (minimum) size of a Bitcoin?

there is acctually no size but we have made a scale to mesure the transaction values. bitcoin has a lot of develpopers and peoples here are expert in their special skills and thats makes bitcoin a size generator insted of just size holding.we have thought a lot and still there is a lot lefteveryone is the member of bitcoin community who are present in this forum and here peoples are from around the world.i still trust on the satoshi nakamotos untold vision .i know what can happen if everyone spend their life to improve their favorute skills it can surely resolve all the problrms just need a little time

It is grow bigger . Def. get in while you can for sure!

Right now its in 400 range.

Bitcoin is a value recorded in public ledger (in every computer or wallet) for a bitcoin address so it will not have size. Block size is the one which have space.

a bitcoin is not physical.. however a value(part of a transaction) is measured in satoshi's

so one bitcoin is 100000000 satoshi's (nine bytes) however those 9 bytes are useless by themselves, they need a transaction to inform where it can from where it is going to and proof that where it came from belonged to you. and so this tx data can be on average 500bytes.

moving 100000000 satoshi's is 9 bytes no matter how many hands it has passed, but if you split it up into multiple transaction not only will the tx data increase
but also the byte value of bitcoin
EG
10x0.1btc=
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)
10000000 (8bytes)

so although the total is 1btc. your now moving 80bytes and with the transaction data to validate it moving to 10 addresses. you are talking a few kbytes now

as for the btc ltc question
a satoshi (0.00000001)btc is the same 1byte as a coblee (0.00000001)ltc
a bitcoin (100000000)sat is the same 1byte as a litecoin (100000000)cob
and the tx data to prove it is much the same

so in short.
1 bitcoin or 1 litecoin is 9bytes. but useless as those nine bytes
1satoshi or 1 coblee is 1byte. but useless as one byte.

analogy:
a bank note is just a piece of special paper.. on its own its useless.. without special words connected to it to validate that it is a bank note... its just paper

There are no coins.. Only wallets..

Bitcoins are not individual files. Bitcoins are amounts at a Bitcoin address. I suppose you could say Bitcoins are as big as your wallet file.

There is no file size of a bitcoin.  Bitcoin is just an abstraction that we use to make it easier to discuss the transfer of control of value. When it comes to actual transactions and blocks in the blockchain, there aren't really any "bitcoins".

Bitcoins have no size. What is sizeable is the blockchain, and transactions are the ones who take up space.

Hey guys, just as the title says, what is the file size for a bitcoin? Does it vary, depending on what coin, or does the file size stay the same? I'm not talking about the size of a wallet.dat file, as those have other information kept inside. I want to know the size of the pure coin.

Does the coin change size the more it is transacted?
Does the coin's size vary if I compare a bitcoin to a litecoin?