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Title: What the size of the blockchains on the future could be?
Post by: bit1 on September 04, 2015, 11:26:06 PM
Thinking on next years and use of huge super massive  blockchains could bring some problems and logically its supernodes could be a specie of centralized nodes with high capacity of storage and processing. Some
solutions could be found like to re-initialize the blockchains each year, Or is  an crazy idea it? Or the unique solution to us  will be use centralized light wallet the end of the privacy.

https://i.imgur.com/Q2RpKTN.jpg




Title: Re: What the size of the blockchains on the future could be?
Post by: ArticMine on September 05, 2015, 01:11:05 AM
Thinking on next years and use of huge super massive  blockchains could bring some problems and logically its supernodes could be a specie of centralized nodes with high capacity of storage and processing. Some
solutions could be found like to re-initialize the blockchains each year, Or is  an crazy idea it? Or the unique solution to us  will be use centralized light wallet the end of the privacy.







Who knows? Terrabytes? Petabytes? etc? The more interesting question is: Will it really matter? Ever wondered how many punched cards it would take to store today's blockchains? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg)


Title: Re: What the size of the blockchains on the future could be?
Post by: bit1 on September 05, 2015, 01:40:47 AM
Thinking on next years and use of huge super massive  blockchains could bring some problems and logically its supernodes could be a specie of centralized nodes with high capacity of storage and processing. Some
solutions could be found like to re-initialize the blockchains each year, Or is  an crazy idea it? Or the unique solution to us  will be use centralized light wallet the end of the privacy.







Who knows? Terrabytes? Petabytes? etc? The more interesting question is: Will it really matter? Ever wondered how many punched cards it would take to store today's blockchains? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg)

Well if itīs really big then could see it http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/special-report-the-worlds-largest-data-centers/ . The point is that all  it is centralized and idea of Bitcoin is be decentralized, For that reason some ideas could are coming like to  re-initialize the blockchains each year or each certain period of time, So blockchains can be supported by everybody with an medium-high CPU.  



Title: Re: What the size of the blockchains on the future could be?
Post by: bit1 on September 05, 2015, 02:34:00 AM
Are BTC and altcoins  decentralized to be really?
how with semi-high pc support huge blockchains could?
Is centralization inevitable?


Title: Re: What the size of the blockchains on the future could be?
Post by: ArticMine on September 05, 2015, 02:51:56 AM
Thinking on next years and use of huge super massive  blockchains could bring some problems and logically its supernodes could be a specie of centralized nodes with high capacity of storage and processing. Some
solutions could be found like to re-initialize the blockchains each year, Or is  an crazy idea it? Or the unique solution to us  will be use centralized light wallet the end of the privacy.







Who knows? Terrabytes? Petabytes? etc? The more interesting question is: Will it really matter? Ever wondered how many punched cards it would take to store today's blockchains? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:IBM_card_storage.NARA.jpg)

Well if itīs really big then could see it http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/special-report-the-worlds-largest-data-centers/ . The point is that all  it is centralized and idea of Bitcoin is be decentralized, For that reason some ideas could are coming like to  re-initialize the blockchains each year or each certain period of time, So blockchains can be supported by everybody with an medium-high CPU.  



Storing 4 GB of data using a warehouse full of punched cards was also very centralized in 1959, Storing 4 GB of data on a USB key today is not. This is the critical point. Now extrapolate this to the future and one can stop worrying about bloat.


Title: Re: What the size of the blockchains on the future could be?
Post by: bit1 on September 05, 2015, 03:39:59 AM
Well let's address this in a more specific way, The size of blockchain to BTC current is around 40GB, On 2012 was of 0.5 GB only, So in less of 3 years was a increase of 39.5 GB it is 98.75%, On this scale i'm not an expert but
on 2016 if will be of 80 GB at least an so on it will be huge on a point, now you could consider that you need at least a backup it does 80*2 160 GB + operating system + anothers personal data + music + photos + videos so you have your HD and uSb to limit, So how can it system be decentralized if almost of medium CPUS could dont be able of drive that charge. I dont can imagine if it get to massive adoption. Bitcoin XT look be a patch to support more transactions but for how long? Logically it never will be decentralized because almost peoples donīt will be able of storage entire blockchain and besides add use of more altcoins.
Its  the  dark side of crypto and digital systems-->   The centralizations looks inminent   The start? -->  Cloud services.   To unless that altcoins use solutions  like to re-initialize the blockchains each year over certain time period.


Title: Re: What the size of the blockchains on the future could be?
Post by: ArticMine on September 05, 2015, 04:31:06 AM
Well let's address this in a more specific way, The size of blockchain to BTC current is around 40GB, On 2012 was of 0.5 GB only, So in less of 3 years was a increase of 39.5 GB it is 98.75%, On this scale i'm not an expert but
on 2016 if will be of 80 GB at least an so on it will be huge on a point, now you could consider that you need at least a backup it does 80*2 160 GB + operating system + anothers personal data + music + photos + videos so you have your HD and uSb to limit, So how can it system be decentralized if almost of medium CPUS could dont be able of drive that charge. I dont can imagine if it get to massive adoption. Bitcoin XT look be a patch to support more transactions but for how long? Logically it never will be decentralized because almost peoples donīt will be able of storage entire blockchain and besides add use of more altcoins.
Its  the  dark side of crypto and digital systems-->   The centralizations looks inminent   The start? -->  Cloud services.   To unless that altcoins use solutions  like to re-initialize the blockchains each year over certain time period.


http://www.ncix.com/category/hard-drives-8a-109.htm (http://www.ncix.com/category/hard-drives-8a-109.htm)

Edit: It may not be very cost effective to buy anything under 1 TB