The Core download page recommends having «enough bandwidth and storage for
full blockchain size.»
Not exact matches
Phase 2, which will likely occur in November, will be a hard fork in the Bitcoin
blockchain to a
full 2 MB base block
size.
The bitcoin
blockchain has grown to over 180 GB in
size and is no longer convenient to run on a notebook, mobile device or even a workstation PC — yet
full nodes are necessary for the health of the network.
Due to Bitcoin's growing popularity, blocks are now consistently
full, causing the
blockchain to grow in
size at a faster pace than it has in the past.
As block
size increases, the
size of the entire
blockchain increases along with it, making it more difficult to store the entire
blockchain and run a
full node.
Several of the improvements are aimed at reducing the time it takes to create a bitcoin
full node, which many predict will become even harder with SegWit activated, since the change increases the
blockchain's block
size (the amount of transaction data that can be stored in each block).
According to CoinDance, the current
size of
full bitcoin
blockchain equals 100.18 GB.
Both proposals have come to be viewed as ones that could scale the bitcoin network for if and when user demand increases in line with speculation, keeping the
size of bitcoin's blocks lower and limiting the
size of the bitcoin
blockchain so nodes can store
full versions more efficiently.
Global
Blockchain and Steemit will jointly determine the ticket
size and distribution of all investments, currently planned for
full deployment by 2020.