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Title: Why the block height do not correspod to bitcoin core database size? Post by: supermankid on April 11, 2022, 08:43:49 AM Hello all,
If current block height is ~731378 And as I understand it bitcoin block is 1 MB 731378 blocks = 731378 MB 731378/1024 ~714 GB But the current up-to-date block is about 500 GB. How did this size difference possible? Or Where am I getting it wrong? Title: Re: Why the block height do not correspod to bitcoin core database size? Post by: nc50lc on April 11, 2022, 09:02:42 AM Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 million Weight Units).
Most of the first thousands blocks are empty and the rest (until Bitcoin became famous) only have a small number of transactions included, so their size are only a few kB. For example: Block #1000 (https://blockstream.info/block/00000000c937983704a73af28acdec37b049d214adbda81d7e2a3dd146f6ed09) doesn't have any transaction in it aside from the coinbase txn; its size is only 0.216 kB. Title: Re: Why the block height do not correspod to bitcoin core database size? Post by: ABCbits on April 11, 2022, 11:58:55 AM Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 Weight Units). To be more precise, maximum block size was 1MB before SegWit activation (August 2017) and now it's 4 million weight units (some people also refer it as 4 kWu). Most of the first thousands blocks are empty and the rest (until Bitcoin became famous) only have a small number of transactions included, so their size are only a few kB. Or rather few hundred bytes. Title: Re: Why the block height do not correspod to bitcoin core database size? Post by: nc50lc on April 12, 2022, 04:39:58 AM Blocks can be lower than the "maximum" block size (currently 4 Weight Units). To be more precise, maximum block size was 1MB before SegWit activation (August 2017) and now it's 4 million weight units (some people also refer it as 4 kWu). |