Wednesday, 19 December 2018

The Bitcoin blockchain (pruned) will never grow bigger than a some hundreds of terabytes - since there is a finite number of Bitcoins, there is a theoretical maximum to how big the UTXO set can be.

Assuming 300 bytes for each UTXO definition, and each UTXO is 1 satoshi - 630 Petabytes. Of course in practice when you have addresses that hold hundreds or thousands of bitcoins, the size in practice will be much much smaller than the figure above.

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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/a7nt8a/the_bitcoin_blockchain_pruned_will_never_grow/

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