Since 4/2023 the chainset/UTXO set size started to increase much more rapidly than all years before.
What's going on?
While the exact size varies between node instances, here's one node as reference. From a peak of a 34% increase between 2019-2020, and an average of 15% per year between 2019 and 2023, the year that ended now saw an increase of 100%, and a rate increase since the last week of April or so:
There's no corresponding increase in blockchain size:
While the rate of increase in blockchain size did change since 2/2023 (not sure why, Ordinals?), an apparent increase in average block size from maybe 1.2MB to 1.7MB, it's nowhere near the change in UTXO set size. Also the start date is misaligned.
What's going on?
While the exact size varies between node instances, here's one node as reference. From a peak of a 34% increase between 2019-2020, and an average of 15% per year between 2019 and 2023, the year that ended now saw an increase of 100%, and a rate increase since the last week of April or so:
There's no corresponding increase in blockchain size:
While the rate of increase in blockchain size did change since 2/2023 (not sure why, Ordinals?), an apparent increase in average block size from maybe 1.2MB to 1.7MB, it's nowhere near the change in UTXO set size. Also the start date is misaligned.
