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Assuming ever block is completely full at 4mb and the difficulty adjustment maintains ~10 minutes per block it will take about 40 thousand years to reach 8 petabytes.

This doesn't change the size that blocks can be, just increases the different kinds of data that could be included and increases the likelihood of available blockspace being used.
7e
_ 2y ago

How much space would Bitcoin core take up?

Btw - I don’t disagree with you. I think high value on chain data has a place. This isn’t new though, BSV has plenty of experience with it.

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Semi-Normal 2y ago

Honestly... Not entirely sure, the text of the code can't be that much though... Definitely not megabytes.

7e
_ 2y ago

I have an older copy, the `src` directory is about 18MB uncompressed, 6.6MB compressed.

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Semi-Normal 2y ago

Wait, like just the text of the code is that much? PR is that additional stuff needed to compile and run etc?

7e
_ 2y ago

Yep. Although it does include things like leveldb which is 1.2MB which could be stripped out.

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Semi-Normal 2y ago

Wow... Way larger than I expected... Maybe split it in to a few inscriptions then :') , definitely feels like bitcoin source code should be there.