Any opinions on Monero's blockchain size? Looking at the anon coins Monero seems to be the one everybody's interested in. But there's already a 1.7GB blockchain size. In 3 months - what am I missing?
P.S. I've got no horse in the anon race. Darkcoin is a borderline scam IMO. Not interested in XCurrency. One of the devs did a massive pump & dump on cachecoin.
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blockchain is 1,6 GB ? Is that a joke ?
No, that is correct. It's about 1.7 GB here. It does depend a bit on the platform, but 1.6 GB seems in the right ballpark.
Some amount of that is database bloat (the same data being stored more than once) and can be improved with a better database implementation. The chart on monerochain records the actual size of blockchain data, currently 738 MB.
This said, the blockchain will grow larger than bitcoin one, by a linear factor. Price to "pay" for unlinkability and untraceability.
not really after the devs implement a database set to optimize and compress the blockchain data.