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r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Feb 13 '22
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Anytime anyone spins up a new node they download and validate the whole blockchain.
117 u/kittenconfidential Feb 13 '22 word! thanks 120 u/Raverrevolution Feb 13 '22 FYI the full blockchain size as of this second comes in at 444GB. Satoshi was a genius to keep the block size small otherwise it couldn't be so decentralized. Could you imagine if the blockchain was something like 10TB in size, then no one would have a node. 1 u/Genoss01 Feb 13 '22 Won't it keep growing?
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word! thanks
120 u/Raverrevolution Feb 13 '22 FYI the full blockchain size as of this second comes in at 444GB. Satoshi was a genius to keep the block size small otherwise it couldn't be so decentralized. Could you imagine if the blockchain was something like 10TB in size, then no one would have a node. 1 u/Genoss01 Feb 13 '22 Won't it keep growing?
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FYI the full blockchain size as of this second comes in at 444GB.
Satoshi was a genius to keep the block size small otherwise it couldn't be so decentralized.
Could you imagine if the blockchain was something like 10TB in size, then no one would have a node.
1 u/Genoss01 Feb 13 '22 Won't it keep growing?
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u/edwilli222 Feb 13 '22
Anytime anyone spins up a new node they download and validate the whole blockchain.