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Topic: How fast is etherium blockchain getting bloated? (Read 1589 times)

hero member
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im going to stay far away from ether, it looks to similar to auroracoin and paycoin. Besides its not something i believe in anyway.
hero member
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Slow or fast, bloated or not as long as I'm making more money with ETH. I don't care!  Grin
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Etherium Blockchain Bloat?




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sr. member
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The frightening thing is Ethereum has no users, except for some speculators, and yet the blockchain is already many gigabytes.  What happens when Ethereum starts getting some real world presence like Bitcoin?  Terabyte blockchain?

I think there are many projects with better technology or are more scalable.

Why worry about the tech, people are making money  Roll Eyes

Why worry about the tech or making money when you got sour grapes?  Roll Eyes
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The frightening thing is Ethereum has no users, except for some speculators, and yet the blockchain is already many gigabytes.  What happens when Ethereum starts getting some real world presence like Bitcoin?  Terabyte blockchain?

I think there are many projects with better technology or are more scalable.

Why worry about the tech, people are making money  Roll Eyes
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The frightening thing is Ethereum has no users, except for some speculators, and yet the blockchain is already many gigabytes.  What happens when Ethereum starts getting some real world presence like Bitcoin?  Terabyte blockchain?

I think there are many projects with better technology or are more scalable.
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Ethereum increased its blocksize by almost 50% over night and no one bats an eye lid. I like how this community is used to progress! self.ethereum
Submitted an hour ago by patienceisa
Before the homestead release gas per block was limited to 3.14 million (I just realised, more Pi!).

Now the gas per block limit is 4.71 million!
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How has this changed? What size is etherium now?


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[–]taylorgerringEthereum - Taylor Gerring 1 point 3 months ago
The current size of go-ethereum's datadir for mainnet is around 3.0GB. This includes overhead of storing in LevelDB locally, however is not a perfect representation of the actual chain itself, since it includes state transitions and the like. This is further complicated that each implementation can decide how to store the data, so there will be variance across clients, especially once pruning is enabled.

Mainnet launched on July 30, 2015 which is almost 3 months ago. With some napkin math and assuming no growth (a poor assumption based on available analytics), your local disk will need about 1GB/month to act as a full archival node.
legendary
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took me about 1 hour to download the blockchain today
sr. member
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With all the hype, all the transaction volumn etc, how fast is etherium bloating up?

Give me the low down and dirty on this shiny turd.
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