Block chain size/storage and slow downloads for new users

[bananas]

Drives are pretty much cheap now, but I think a huge problem is still bandwidth caps. 40GB is about two times the bandwidth cap I get where I am right now.

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Bandwidth's pretty much cheap now; I have unlimited 100 mb/sec. Lets increase the required bandwidth because its only waiting a couple of minutes longer.
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I get fed up with the "I'm alright Jack cos I have a 10 tonne tower of hard drives." attitude. It's not a problem FOR YOU and it's cheap FOR YOU and you can do anything you like to your computer because you don't have an IT department in your bedroom.

Indeed, my bandwidth is unlimited and disk space is not a problem , so should i say bandwidth is pretty cheap and does not matter? but i don't have SSD drives to suffer less with the terrible leveldb Bitcoin Core uses

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[lottery248]

should bitcoin have an update to compact the blockchain?
even if the HDD become cheaper in the future, it won't help for synchronizing, that is horrible - less people uses qt = less security.

[ranochigo]

should bitcoin have an update to compact the blockchain?
even if the HDD become cheaper in the future, it won't help for synchronizing, that is horrible - less people uses qt = less security.

Pruning has been implemented for the next version. It would help in the reduction of blockchain size. Bitcoin needs more geographically decentralised nodes than centralised one even though more nodes would mean that it would be harder for sybil attacks to be successful. Synchronization time is reduced significantly with the introduction of header-first synchronization.

[crazyearner]

should bitcoin have an update to compact the blockchain?
even if the HDD become cheaper in the future, it won't help for synchronizing, that is horrible - less people uses qt = less security.

It should get compacted, it is shocking to see how big btc wallet is getting with all the confirmations and blockchain in it. Now getting closer to 30GB. I stopped using this due to this fact and crashing when trying to download or update. Moved to Bither wont ever go back to qt main wallet unless I really need to and so far Bither is been a kick ass wallet.

[panzerdeni]

I personaly use Electrum but the down side it is storing the data on remote servers if i rememmber right. I have used to have free space and i installed the original Bitcoin wallet but i needed to install it. This is my opinion.

[CoinCidental]

should bitcoin have an update to compact the blockchain?
even if the HDD become cheaper in the future, it won't help for synchronizing, that is horrible - less people uses qt = less security.

It should get compacted, it is shocking to see how big btc wallet is getting with all the confirmations and blockchain in it. Now getting closer to 30GB. I stopped using this due to this fact and crashing when trying to download or update. Moved to Bither wont ever go back to qt main wallet unless I really need to and so far Bither is been a kick ass wallet.

Close to 30GB?? Did you mean 40

[killerjoegreece]

bootstrap is the best way to download btc. or an image of the roaming folder can do it much faster for the core version.