I am trying to find the actual size of the etherum blockchain.
I just found older posts that says it is around 21GB.
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found a 2 month old answer on reddit, this should do it for the moment. reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5om2lw/… – honsa Mar 23 '17 at 20:14
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Is there a blockchain.info like thing for eth? like this: blockchain.info/charts/avg-block-size?timespan=2years – wordsforthewise Mar 25 '17 at 6:19
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they are etherchain.org and etherscan.io – wordsforthewise Mar 25 '17 at 6:23
Blockchain size in ethereum depends in the implementation. In Parity is about 6 GB, in Geth is about 11 GB. Geth is not implementing state pruning, so 11 GB would be a clean sync with --light, while if you don't use this would be 60GB+.
For disk space needs, see this answer.
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Thank you for your reply, but i already checked this link as you can see above :) Now I am downloading the chain to see how big it is. – honsa Mar 23 '17 at 21:11
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1If you got that answer from here: reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5om2lw/… then there's actually the hint that it's not --light but --fast – tobi Mar 31 '17 at 13:34
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@Dan Kinchen Are you sure it's 11 GB with
--lightoption and not with--fastoption? – Prashant Prabhakar Singh Jul 21 '17 at 13:03
