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kylemanna / docker-bitcoind

💰 Bitcoind Docker image that runs the Bitcoin node in a container for easy deployment
https://hub.docker.com/r/kylemanna/bitcoind/
MIT License
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how much space does it actually gonna take? #35

Closed changemenemo closed 8 years ago

changemenemo commented 8 years ago

Hi,

it appears that it has taken already much more than 40GB for my volume and I just created yesterday... any ideas about how much it will take?

hypergig commented 8 years ago

86 gigs as of one week ago

kylemanna commented 8 years ago

Yeah, it keeps growing, mine is about 90GB. Sorry to mislead. I have updated the README.

As for being more space efficient, consider the bitcoind -prune option.

changemenemo commented 8 years ago

is it more or less accurate or this is not related?
https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size

kylemanna commented 8 years ago

is it more or less accurate or this is not related? https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size

It's close.

Says the block size was about 81GB on Aug 28.

As of now my .bitcoin directory is 88GB with 87GB under .bitcoin/blocks

changemenemo commented 8 years ago

thanks for all this precision. My doesn't seems to work it doesn't seem to calculate anything. but that s another issue post if you are able to look at it :)