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Storage required considerably more than 6GB now. #1010

Closed BenWestgate closed 6 months ago

BenWestgate commented 6 months ago

"Bitcoin Core requires a one-time download of about 500GB of data plus a further 5-10GB per month. By default, you will need to store all of that data, but if you enable pruning, you can store as little as 6GB total without sacrificing any security."

The download is closer to 600GB now. But more importantly:

The chainstate is now 10 GB and the lowest GUI prune setting is 1 GB so we're off by 5 GB almost 100% there. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/61de64df6790077857faba84796bb874b59c5d15/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp#L122