This is because the later blocks are more full.
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Number of transactions looks pretty similar. What else are they full with?
Monkeys, LOL. 🐵
Oh great. So my drive is getting full of useless monkey pics...
It seems to have died down because it was mostly coming from a single source. But they’re forever stuck on the blockchain.
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Well thats good news! I assume it will be an issue for syncing until this year though 😅
Even when I synced my node back in 2021 the last 10% seemed to take forever. The cool part was knowing that the first part of the blockchain that downloads really fast was where everything from the Genesis Block, Hal Finney, Laszlo Haynecz, SatoshiDice, to Silk Road and Wikileaks lived. You can watch so much of bitcoin’s history unfold in just one day.