Re: Bitcoin-Qt fills entire disk

[derrickoswald]

In Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Technical Support > Bitcoin-Qt fills entire disk

grue says he was "not able to replicate with a VMWare machine (40 GB storage)".

It is perhaps because he didn't try to sync an old enough wallet.
I ran into the same problem. The %APPDATA%\Bitcoin directory is over 9GB now and still increasing.

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[Gabi]

And where is the problem exactly?

The blockchain is 9GB or so big so of course it will take 9GB 

There is a problem if it is using 40GB 

[derrickoswald]

From this stack exchange, the bock chain was about 500MB as of September 2011.
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/478/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-the-block-chain-data-on-my-machine
That would mean it's growing at (9 -0.5) / 20 months = 425MB/month.

What mobile device can keep up with this? A (new) phone can hold 500MB maybe, but even if transactions don't increase, can it hold 16GB next year?
Something is wrong here.

[DeathAndTaxes]

From this stack exchange, the bock chain was about 500MB as of September 2011.
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/478/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-the-block-chain-data-on-my-machine
That would mean it's growing at (9 -0.5) / 20 months = 425MB/month.

What mobile device can keep up with this? A (new) phone can hold 500MB maybe, but even if transactions don't increase, can it hold 16GB next year?
Something is wrong here.

A mobile device can run as a lite node.  A full node will require a copy of the blockchain. 

[dree12]

From this stack exchange, the bock chain was about 500MB as of September 2011.
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/478/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-the-block-chain-data-on-my-machine
That would mean it's growing at (9 -0.5) / 20 months = 425MB/month.

What mobile device can keep up with this? A (new) phone can hold 500MB maybe, but even if transactions don't increase, can it hold 16GB next year?
Something is wrong here.

Whence came thy phone? An HTC One has at least 32 GB of storage, and that's an ancient low-grade model. I find it difficult to believe a phone can't hold 16 GB.

[Anillos]

In Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Technical Support > Bitcoin-Qt fills entire disk

grue says he was "not able to replicate with a VMWare machine (40 GB storage)".

It is perhaps because he didn't try to sync an old enough wallet.
I ran into the same problem. The %APPDATA%\Bitcoin directory is over 9GB now and still increasing.

Maybe You can try to switch to a lightweight wallet.

Storing the blockchain doesn't make sense if You aren't a miner. You won't earn money for storing lots of Satoshi dice's transactions.

And where is the problem exactly?

The blockchain is 9GB or so big so of course it will take 9GB  

There is a problem if it is using 40GB  

Not everyone can purchase a new computer.

[DrGregMulhauser]

A lighter weight client such as Multibit can provide a local wallet without storing the entire contents of the blockchain:

http://multibit.org

Although you won't get the warm fuzzies that come from fully supporting the computational overhead of the Bitcoin network, opting for a lightweight client does mean a much smaller storage space -- a few megabytes -- and a much lower requirement for raw computing power.