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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: CryptoNote coins (BCN, Aeon, XMR, Monero...) and blockchain size - Trouble?
by
Rias
on 18/12/2015, 15:49:53 UTC
Your figures are wrong

1) Does AEON really exist for 38 days? The blockchain shouldn't be even close to 1GB then. AEON was launched 1.5 years ago, AFAIK. Did they relaunch the blockchain?

2) Bitcoin blockchain is twice more than 20GBs as of now:
https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size

3) Also, CryptoNote wallet file is indeed 20-something megabytes, not more (for ordinary wallets).

Bloating problem is likely irrelevant

I honestly never saw a problem with the blockchain size for CryptoNotes. Each tx is 2-3 times larger than in Bitcoin (as discussed by CryptoNote devs). It is a linear function, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with CryptoNote blockchain.

It is slightly bigger, but still not that much. Bytecon, which has the longest and possibly the largest blockchain from all CryptoNotes is currently 6GB when fully indexed.

Eventually, there will be full and light nodes just like in Bitcoin. Infrastructure will be sorted out by the evolution.

So you are either ignorant or fuding.