Quote from: coins101 on September 12, 2016, 05:29:03 PM

Quote from: Kprawn on September 12, 2016, 05:19:28 PM

Quote from: coins101 on September 10, 2016, 04:37:49 PM

Quote from: severaldetails on September 10, 2016, 04:20:32 PM

Would it not be possible to buy a harddrive with the blockchain already on it?
Downloading 700GB P2P, I guess that would take weeks or even months.
Every package sent around the globe usually is faster.
In 4 years, a 700 GB USB stick will be a normal thing.

1TB usb is currently around $600. Plus, loading fees, plus delivery, plus taxes, lets say its around ~~$400~~ $300 delivered to your door in 4 years. Would you buy one?

Don't forget that monthly bandwidth cost.

Why do you want to store the Blockchain on the most expensive media? Just drop it on a inexpensive 3.5" harddrive and you set to go. The cost

of harddrives are cheap in relation to memory sticks and the size & price ratio of older drives {second hand drives} are also very affordable. I can

get second hand drives for next to nothing. You can put loads of smaller second hand drives in a RAID configuration. Grin

I was responding to the question. If you look, he or she talks about a USB.

Agreed, but why use a USB memory stick to do that, if you can use a cheap second hand harddrive. You can overnight courier the drive for

even less... the 2.5" harddrives are a bit more expensive, but they weigh less. Wink

.. For every problem, there is a solution. If a friend of mine,

have bandwidth issues, I will copy the Blockchain on one of these cheap harddrives, and courier it to him. Daily bandwidth use after that,

should not be an issue. Some clever entrepreneur can take this idea and make some profit charging people for this service. Wink