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Re: Different sites report different blockchain sizes?
by
jnano
on 25/06/2018, 02:06:07 UTC
Besides the tip area, surely there's only one canonical blockchain. That's the whole idea, no?

My most basic interpretation for "blockchain size" would be the cumulative size of the blocks in the best chain, with block data serialized the same way the
network tallies block sizes. Anything else would have to be explained in detail. Would you have another interpretation?

They are all accurately reporting exactly what they've chosen to report.
They could be buggy. Smiley

There are disparities like this since they are using fast synchronizations.
What's fast synchronization?