Quote from: tacotime on July 22, 2014, 07:23:27 PM

Quote from: aminorex on July 22, 2014, 07:06:48 PM

Quote from: binaryFate on July 22, 2014, 07:04:31 PM

This said, the blockchain will grow larger than bitcoin one, by a linear factor. Price to "pay" for unlinkability and untraceability.

For now. I'm pretty sure there will be a much smaller chain with adapted cryptonote before too long.

Chain is going to be larger for this one, probably some 5-20x larger than that of Bitcoin's. That being said, that means maybe hundreds of GB at worst in a few years, which isn't an impossible tradeoff (for now) with privacy.

There are a lot of propositions for means to reduce the size of the blockchain, and we're reviewing them all carefully.

Having most people use thin clients isn't really a big deal, is it? Cryptos in general are moving towards that point anyway. The only issue in general is making sure enough people have incentive to run full nodes.