92 gigs? Wowwzers.

[waveaddict]

It seems like it will just get larger because of the small transactions that are on the blockchain. With more stores and people having the Bitcoin payment option enabled it would let the other customers who buy things electronically really happy...if the BTC price doesn't crash that is.

You better get some external HD's

[Odien]

When you see that a 1 To HDD costs you around 50$, I don't see it being a real problem. 100 Go is not that much nowadays you know.

[Meuh6879]

the thing is ... storage is astonishing.
I look my MP3 library since 1996 (minidisc recording) and i have only 224 Gb (20 years).

And look the Blockchain of Bitcoin : a whole ledger from 2009 from international network ... and only 92 Gb in 7 years.

Compression is a good.
CPU help, too (on-ship, i mean).

[Wind_FURY]

But what about bandwidth? It will be a real problem starting a Bitcoin node from scratch in the coming future when the blockchain becomes too large and the bandwidth stays the same. There is a reason why there are less and less Bitcoin nodes these days. It is getting harder for someone to start and maintain one regardless of what you say about storage not being a problem. The core developers should find for ways to slow down the bloat.

[Dabs]

Before the Bitcoin fork happens, we will see the altcoin forks. In fact, we are seeing the altcoins right now (not their forks, but new coins), like a dozen every month or more, some with 10 second blocks, some with 30 second blocks, some with 1 minute blocks, and some with 2.5 minutes to 4 minutes per block.

I don't see too many alts with 10 minute blocks these days. Half of them die (run out of miners or nodes or users) within a year, the rest die in 2 to 3 years.