I'm also surprised chainstate folder has size 7.8GB. So i decide to run gettxoutsetinfo and got following statistic which state there are currently 116.8 million UTXO.
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I think that is larger than even the bitcoin mainnet's chainstate, right? It was at 6GB or so the last time I checked its size.
Mainnet's chainstate is still bigger at 11.3GB, with about 50% more total UTXO.
Testnet still has way more blocks. I didn't knew about that.
At time of posting, testnet is on block 2.800 million, while mainnet is still 800 thousands..
https://mempool.space/testnet/block/00000000000000cf5c1d4fda088f2623c34643c7677ffa6d71e0b3e62214d39bThis is due to the fact that the difficulty resets to 1 regularly on testnet.