Any opinions on Monero's blockchain size? I mean ... there's already a 1.7GB blockchain size. In 3 months it's half as large as the litecoin blockchain - so when it's litecoin's age if adoption doesn't increase any we'll be seeing 17GB since litecoin has been around 10X as long?
If adoption increases by 4X - 5X to knock litecoin off as #2 - we'll see a 68 - 85GB blockchain in a few years?
FWIW - I've got no horse in the anon race. Darkcoin is a borderline scam IMO. An XCurrency dev did a massive pump pump job on cachecoin & appears to be dropping his ASIC project for LTC so I'm avoiding that like the plague. Just not seeing a clear winner in anon ATM
I addressed this in the general monero thread as I have been monitoring the actual size on disk which the graph on monerochain.info doesn't show. If you can be bothered go back and find it and if not I will be updating the sizes tomorrow as I haven't done it in a few days.
Basically as has been said there was an initial bloat of the chain due to pool dust and that has been fixed and is currently growing at a much more stable and slower rate. It is likely to be a few times larger than Bitcoins blockchain but that is a fair price to pay for privacy. Again as has been said the cost/GB and general cost of HDD's will go down quicker than the blockchain will grow.