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Re: Bitcoin hits 500 GB size hard disk data
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ETFbitcoin
on 14/02/2023, 11:53:56 UTC
Did you actually create bootstrap.dat file (see https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/10381) or just compress Bitcoin Core directory?
I didn't know there's a procedure for it, I just compressed blocks and chainstate.

I see. In that case it's slightly different from bootstrap.dat file since Bitcoin Core doesn't verify most things.

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7z with LZMA2 algorithm could do better job, but i expect it'll be extremely slow.
Even if it saves a few GB, that's only a few percent anyway.

That's true. Last time i tried that with Bitcoin Signet, i got compression ratio 0.63 (505MB / 798MB). For comparison, compression you choose have ratio about 0.81 (397GB / ~486GB).