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Re: wot if blockchain got to 100 terabit wot then
by
juju
on 11/03/2015, 17:43:56 UTC
how will it be possible with a permanent record and with more adoption its going to be huge how will wallets be used then how would u host it wot if it gets to 1 yotabit

We would be able to transfer 100 "terabit" or whatever your asking in the future. Your thinking about this linearly, data storage grows exponentially.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

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A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are
generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems
typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of
1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in
memory

100 Terabyte sized ledger would be many many many years from now. By that time it should still be relatively easy to store and transfer the ledger.