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Re: Can Maidsafe be used to solve the "storage problem" of Bitcoin's blockchain?
by
Soappa
on 26/04/2014, 13:06:34 UTC
Can hyped up non-existent vaporware cure cancer?  Anyone's guess.  I saw and early whitepaper for that and it was full of technobabble and set of my personal sleaze alarms.

What/which "storage problem" are you talking about?

The storage problem of the blockchain becoming terabytes in size and your average person does not have the incentive or means to be a full node. Not sure if this is really a 'problem' problem, though, if some minimum amount of full nodes are plenty for the network to thrive.

Right now, the average block size is around 200KB. At 10 minutes a block, the blockchain will grow 10.5 GB a year.
Even at the maximum block size 1 MB, the blockchain will "only" grow 50GB a year.

It will take dozens of years at least to reach terabytes, and the HDD size and internet bandwidth should be a lot better dozens of years later.