Not like breaking news, but:
Utxo set now up to 180 million, and I think more than 12GB. Was 160 million about a month ago.
At what point do small nodes just keel over I wonder.
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Keep pumping this Rookie Numbers, NGU FTW.
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721 GB consumed by Core on my node.
Right but at least that can be pruned, fine for a lot of basic use cases. Fast access to utxo set is non-negotiable for all nodes.
good point - pruned nodes can still certain user functions.
wallet functions n broadcast
They are just flushed to disk. 1 TB is already too small for a full node, so it'll have to fill up a 2 TB drive.
The definition of small is ever changing.
I'm proud to have been part of the small block resistance back in the day. Without it running a personal node would have been a distant dream - but yes, it's time to add more storage.
On the positive side - time is also a good thing; CPUs are now more efficient, storage getting cheaper. What once didn't fit on a desk can be carried in your pocket. The future is bright.
Yeah, it's pretty bad...
what do you mean by "smaller nodes" ? I think a reasonable spec in memory for a small node is 2TB.