im running a full node on my raspberry pi and currently the blockchain data directories are taking up 425GB of space.
about 421GB in the blocks directory and 4.6GB in the chainstate directory.
i see on websites like ycharts dot com that the current blockchain size is about 396GB.
what can explain the difference in my copy?
No pruning in your case? FYI, my directory properties indicate 0.657 TB "size on disk." There is another value, 0.676 TB indicated by properties which is something other than "size on disk." I don't know if that's the objective blockchain independent of a particular user's use case. I think that there must be differences in configuration that explain individual differences in the size of a blockchain that one has onsite in a Full Node versus the objective size.
Other thoughts:
I think that the objective size of the blockchain must have a constant value that only changes when another block is concatenated. And I wonder if each block is quantitatively identical or different. You could evaluate the size of the objective blockchain and divide by blockheight and at least get an average per block.
what can explain the difference in my copy?
Most sites don't update the total size, so the longer ago someone typed it, the smaller the number.
I currently have 4.6GB
chainstate and 420 GB
blocks.
Please explain
chainstate. Console command for that?
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