blockchain size

[oblivi]

Here's a great graphic that lets you visualize the future scalability of bitcoin if (hopefully) we get our shit together and start raising the blocksize in time to not bloat the network and start challenging the banksters and their centralized business and potentially ruin them by deprecating them:

[Za1n]

Won't ever be an issue:


Year   Average Cost Per Gigabyte
2014   $0.03
2013   $0.05
2010   $0.09
2005   $1.24
2000   $11.00
1995   $1,120
1990   $11,200
1985   $105,000
1980   $437,500


Cost of 2.5 GB drive in 1996: $440
Cost of 200 GB drive in 2005: $140
Cost of 2 TB (2,000 GB) drive in 2015: >$100 (NewEgg)
Cost of 2 PB (2,000 TB) drive in 2035: ?? Probably>$100 (some future online website)

Data from: http://www.statisticbrain.com/average-cost-of-hard-drive-storage/