Topic: on average, how much HD space does bitcoin-qt consume per day - page 3. (Read 13995 times)
blockchain.info/wallet
It only costs a bit over BTC3 to get 10TB nowadays 
Do not delete your wallet! caveden is speaking about deleting the blockchain/having it on a usb key instead of the hard disk. But do not delete your wallet, make backups of it!
The blockchain today is about 7.8GB big, and of course it is increasing. Once the blocksize cap will be changed, it will grow even more. But of course pruning is possible, so don't worry about 10TB hard disks
The blockchain today is about 7.8GB big, and of course it is increasing. Once the blocksize cap will be changed, it will grow even more. But of course pruning is possible, so don't worry about 10TB hard disks
You just need to point Bitcoin-QT to your data dir. I think it's -datadir=... or something.
Keep backups of your wallet, of course.
No need to back up the blockchain, there are already plenty of copies around the world.
Keep backups of your wallet, of course.
No need to back up the blockchain, there are already plenty of copies around the world.
Since 0.8 it became perfectly possible to run Bitcoin with its data dir in an USB disk, so I'm currently doing that to save space in my main disk (which is quite small).
Concerning your question, It's currently growing at no more than 250Kb per block, with ~144 blocks per day that should be at most ~36Mb of daily growth (it's actually less than that, not every block's hitting 250Kb). After May 15th, that growth rate might rise. It will take a hard-fork change for it to rise above 144Mb per day though, due to the 1Mb cap.
You can follow the total size here: http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
Concerning your question, It's currently growing at no more than 250Kb per block, with ~144 blocks per day that should be at most ~36Mb of daily growth (it's actually less than that, not every block's hitting 250Kb). After May 15th, that growth rate might rise. It will take a hard-fork change for it to rise above 144Mb per day though, due to the 1Mb cap.
You can follow the total size here: http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
I have an external HD and have a back up on there. So are you saying I could delete (
) the copy on my laptop and just have the HD version to save disk space? I suppose that would make sense I just never thought of it. Don't think I will as it's less risky to just delete more other stuff from my laptop and make a backup of that rather than just have 1 copy of my wallet.
Blockchain growth is only exponential as long as Bitcoin usage growth is exponential. Whenever usage stabilizes, blockchain growth will be linear, and bandwidth consumption will stabilize, while storage resources and connection speeds will remain growing exponentially. So, at most, there will be a medium term future in which running a full node requires a professional amount of resources, but as resources keep growing exponentially and Bitcoin consumption of said resources keeps growing linearly, eventually everybody will be able to run full nodes on their phones.
And remember, for sending and receiving money safely, you can use a SVP client. Those require much less resources. You can run a full p2p SVP client on your phone right now.
(Btw, if I'm not mistaken in the fast calculations I've just made, it would take almost 200 years to reach 10Tb by growing 144Mb per day... I know this growth rate will increase beyond these 144Mb, but from where do you take this "soon we'll need 10Tb" figure? What's "soon"?)
And remember, for sending and receiving money safely, you can use a SVP client. Those require much less resources. You can run a full p2p SVP client on your phone right now.
(Btw, if I'm not mistaken in the fast calculations I've just made, it would take almost 200 years to reach 10Tb by growing 144Mb per day... I know this growth rate will increase beyond these 144Mb, but from where do you take this "soon we'll need 10Tb" figure? What's "soon"?)
Since 0.8 it became perfectly possible to run Bitcoin with its data dir in an USB disk, so I'm currently doing that to save space in my main disk (which is quite small).
Concerning your question, It's currently growing at no more than 250Kb per block, with ~144 blocks per day that should be at most ~36Mb of daily growth (it's actually less than that, not every block's hitting 250Kb). After May 15th, that growth rate might rise. It will take a hard-fork change for it to rise above 144Mb per day though, due to the 1Mb cap.
You can follow the total size here: http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
Concerning your question, It's currently growing at no more than 250Kb per block, with ~144 blocks per day that should be at most ~36Mb of daily growth (it's actually less than that, not every block's hitting 250Kb). After May 15th, that growth rate might rise. It will take a hard-fork change for it to rise above 144Mb per day though, due to the 1Mb cap.
You can follow the total size here: http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
144mb is way to much it already takes like 20 hours to download it. Soon we will all need 10TB hard drives for btc only <.<
And it take 4 months to download..
Since 0.8 it became perfectly possible to run Bitcoin with its data dir in an USB disk, so I'm currently doing that to save space in my main disk (which is quite small).
Concerning your question, It's currently growing at no more than 250Kb per block, with ~144 blocks per day that should be at most ~36Mb of daily growth (it's actually less than that, not every block's hitting 250Kb). After May 15th, that growth rate might rise. It will take a hard-fork change for it to rise above 144Mb per day though, due to the 1Mb cap.
You can follow the total size here: http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
Concerning your question, It's currently growing at no more than 250Kb per block, with ~144 blocks per day that should be at most ~36Mb of daily growth (it's actually less than that, not every block's hitting 250Kb). After May 15th, that growth rate might rise. It will take a hard-fork change for it to rise above 144Mb per day though, due to the 1Mb cap.
You can follow the total size here: http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
It will forever increase in size.
With that said, you might want to try Electrum instead. It doesn't have to download the blockchain; perfect for lappies.
With that said, you might want to try Electrum instead. It doesn't have to download the blockchain; perfect for lappies.
Right I know it forever increases in size...I'm just trying to get a rough idea of how much. I suppose I could not be lazy and just monitor my HD space everyday and take a guess. Figured it was quicker on here though.
Thanks for the advice on Electrum, I'm going to read up on that now since I'm also using a laptop.
It will forever increase in size.
With that said, you might want to try Electrum instead. It doesn't have to download the blockchain; perfect for lappies.
With that said, you might want to try Electrum instead. It doesn't have to download the blockchain; perfect for lappies.
About how much HD space does bitcoin-qt eat up every day in order to download blockchain info. I keep seeing my HD get less and less space and I'm worried at some point in the future I simply wont be able to run bitcoin-qt without buying another HD.
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