Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX
Sub-Ether's chart of the day.
http://statoshi.info/#/dashboard/file/default.json?panelId=5&fullscreen&edit&from=1399556468856&to=1431092468872
Moore's law is not keeping up with the memory usage as the unspent transaction memory requirement has doubled in 1 year and the cost of memory has only gone down by 20% so once again the scaling problems of bitcoin are showing themselves.
Read more from the man himself ...
http://gavinandresen.ninja/utxo-uhoh
Today, the UTXO database is about 650MiB on disk, 4GB when decompressed into memory. DRAM costs about $10 per GB, so you need to spend about $40 on memory if you want absolute fastest access to the UTXO. Not a big deal.
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'Assuming the UTXO set continues to double and RAM prices continue to drop 20% per year, next year youll have to spend about $64. Ten years from now, over $4,000 '
http://statoshi.info/#/dashboard/file/default.json?panelId=5&fullscreen&edit&from=1399556468856&to=1431092468872
Moore's law is not keeping up with the memory usage as the unspent transaction memory requirement has doubled in 1 year and the cost of memory has only gone down by 20% so once again the scaling problems of bitcoin are showing themselves.
Read more from the man himself ...
http://gavinandresen.ninja/utxo-uhoh
Today, the UTXO database is about 650MiB on disk, 4GB when decompressed into memory. DRAM costs about $10 per GB, so you need to spend about $40 on memory if you want absolute fastest access to the UTXO. Not a big deal.
...
'Assuming the UTXO set continues to double and RAM prices continue to drop 20% per year, next year youll have to spend about $64. Ten years from now, over $4,000 '
RAM compression (software solution) might be useful to alleviate the issue. In linux I've setted up z-ram and it can compress data from 2 to 3x on the fly, meaning 1gb ram can fit 2 or 3gb worth of ram data with some CPU tradeoff (time wasted to compress/decompress data, which is still much faster than swapping data out to a hard disk).