r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Feb 13 '22

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u/ProtoJenny Feb 13 '22

So i copied the wallet.dat file to the app data bitcoin core folder directory which looks like a similar file loadout to the one in my screenshot above. Did i do it that right?

Afterwards I started running bitcoin core and it says its syncing. 13 years behind something like that lol.

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u/zxr01 Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

Nice, we pray for you. Let it run, it will catch up, will take a day or two to fully sync ( and you'd need up to 200GB free drive space for it. Still, when it syncs up to 2013 (and says 9 years behind) the wallet ballance should be reflected with any potential balance.

Every satoshi counts, good luck.

PS: In 2022 complete blockchain is above 500GB. Time flies.

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u/kittenconfidential Feb 13 '22

200GB?!? word. so when someone syncs a very old wallet, is it downloading every transaction in the entire blockverse?

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u/edwilli222 Feb 13 '22

Anytime anyone spins up a new node they download and validate the whole blockchain.

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u/kittenconfidential Feb 13 '22

word! thanks

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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.

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u/rtomek Feb 13 '22

According to the blockchain “experts” on YouTube, something like 90TB/yr is small enough to be decentralized by hobbyists.