Quote from: Joeboy on July 28, 2025, 02:34:50 PM

2) And just within 30 minutes of syncing tit, it will consume roughly about 12GB of my mobile data without even syncing much Undecided

When i write this reply, size of Bitcoin blockchain is currently almost 700GB.

Quote from: Joeboy on July 28, 2025, 02:34:50 PM

Should I downgrade, change some settings, or is v29.0 simply more data intensive?

What is your goal of running Bitcoin Core? If you need Bitcoin wallet that is easy to use, consider wallet software such as Electrum. If you want to help the Bitcoin network, you don't have to force yourself to run full node especially when there are at least 22K reachable nodes (according to bitnodes.io)

Quote from: LoyceV on July 28, 2025, 06:45:29 PM

Quote from: Joeboy on July 28, 2025, 05:45:49 PM

HP laptop with AMD processor, 8gb RAM, 128 SSD, 1.80GHZ Windows 11

With 8 GB RAM, your SSD will get pounded while syncing the last few years of block data. It will work, but only get slower as chainstate grows.

I don't know quality of HP product. But if it use very cheap/QLC-based SSD, the sync speed (after certain block height) will reduce significantly and may cause slowdown whole laptop/task.