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What are the Ethereum disk space needs?
Update on Dec 9th, 2018 / Block ~ 6_850_000 - It's quite an annoyance to keep this answer updated.
Geth (Go)
Last Update: May 14th, 2018 / Block ~ 5_600_000
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What are the Ethereum disk space needs?
Currently, the network is growing at around 1GB per month. It's hard to anticipate how large it could grow and at what pace, but there are already efforts underway to implement state-tree pruning in ...
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Difference between a pruned and unpruned blockchain
Lets take it one step at a time.
Blockchains generally work by having an origin (genesis) state with a few accounts having funds, and then every block that you place on top of the chain moves those ...
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What is the parity light pruning mode?
geth and parity have differents methods to save the ethereum blockchain in their internal format. I made many benchs because i find it so long just to use a Wallet.
The pruning mode is how the block ...
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What is state-trie pruning and how does it work?
It is a similar concept to garbage collection in programming languages and in tree-based version control system like git.
When ethereum contracts run, they modify their state. And since the state tree ...
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What are the Ethereum disk space needs?
As of 11/01/2016, ethereum blockchain (ETH, i.e. supporting DAO fork) downloaded in full mode occupies 75GB on my drive. Client is geth (go-ethereum), version 1.4.18, built from source cloned from ...
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Why isn't fast sync the default?
Two reasons:
Fast sync indeed has one additional weakness compared to full sync. As long as an attacker can keep you isolated from the main chain (e.g. infect your router), it may construct an ...
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What are the Ethereum disk space needs?
I've stumbled upon the links bellow :
1- provides an online chart which presents the Ethereum's blockchain current size evolution alongside the Bitcoin blockchain's size.
http://bc.daniel.net.nz/
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What is the parity light pruning mode?
With each block state (contracts storage and balances) is changing.
By default (archive) we keep in database full state of every block.
With different pruning algorithms we are ditching state data ...
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Is there a dynamic pruning in geth --fast?
Simple answer no. --fast download a pruned version of the state tries, but it behaves like archive after. So if you want spare disk, remove your blockchain with geth removedb and do a --fast again.
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What are the Ethereum disk space needs?
Benchmarks done on Homestead in june 2016
Geth 1.4.9 on i7 3720QM 16GB ram and SSD
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What are the Ethereum disk space needs?
As of February 1, the blockchain size is ~940k blocks, with a new block being created every 17.2 seconds. This means, on average, the blockchain increases by 152,790 blocks every month.
A rough ...
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Full node sync only preserve the last 128 history states
The behavior has changed with the release of geth v1.8.0
Fromt the release notes
Tracing and pruning: By default, state for the last 128 blocks kept in memory. Most states are garbage collected. ...
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How dependent is the ethereum client on the router and DNS being trusted?
The ethereum clients connect to some trusted nodes that I believe are run by the ethereum foundation. The p2p layer uses authenticated encryption, so these connections are secure regardless of what ...
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Can Ethereum be pruned to the extent that it could be run from a Raspberry Pi?
Light clients are on the way for lower power embedded devices. I believe these light clients only get block headers initially, and further data as needed on-demand from full nodes on the Ethereum ...
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How dependent is the ethereum client on the router and DNS being trusted?
Yes, there is an assumption that when the node tries to connect to a given IP address, that in fact it is. To restate what Ethan said a little differently, if you are concerned that you might be MITM'...
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What are the Ethereum disk space needs?
I'm syncing a node in full mode. At the moment it' on block 5005306 (end of January 2018) and it is 700Gb. It's probably been running for more than 20 days
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I can no longer access old blocks via RPC in full syncmode?
Update: I had originally thought the OP's question was about stored state, but have since realized that even the block headers seem to be unavailable. Answers have been edited a bit to reflect this, ...
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How can we conserve disk space or compress the blockchain?
There is ongoing research into light clients, these are clients that do not require an entire copy of the block chain to function.
I believe you conflated the terms 'memory' and 'disk space' in your ...
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Can I do a pruned fast sync?
Use geth --fast:
--fast Enable fast syncing through state downloads
This only downloads the blockchain and verifies the proof-of-work. It does not commit all transactions included in ...
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Why does the blockchain store multiple copies of the same code?
For now it's probably for simplicity of implementation - due to the fact that keeping one copy properly would require reference counting. Since contracts can be destroyed using the SUICIDE opcode, if ...
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What are the benefits of ethereum 'archive' sync mode and who should use it?
Archive nodes are only necessary if you're going to be querying historical nodes that are no longer on the state trie.
That said, even fast-pruned nodes allow you to inspect some (configurable) depth ...
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State trie pruning and synching, how does that work?
The state isn't pruned during syncing, it is pruned after. During sync the node downloads accounts incrementally until the whole State is downloaded. After the node is in sync, pruning is activated. ...
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Is there Blocks Pruning in ethereum clients specialy geth? (and other questions)
Blocks aren't pruned. They are stored in geth/chaindata/ancient directory and you can't delete them because your Geth is serving this information to other nodes that at any point in time would need to ...
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Ethereum pruning: What if no archival node existed?
Seeing as nobody else has provided any answer let me try to give an answer of some sort. I'm not very familiar with this and googling was giving me a bit contradictory results - somebody please ...
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Reference a long-forgoten account
This is incorrect. I think the disconnect is that the block doesn't just contain changes to the state, it also contains the state root itself, which is generated using the entire current state. ...
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Merkle tree child hashing process
I asked myself this question too, and by looking at bitcoin's implementation of merkle trees, it seems like the two hashes are first, treated as binary data and second, they're indeed concatenated.
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Speed of syncing the chain in parity using archive pruning mode
Thanks for accepting the challenge of running a full archive node! :D
1) what are the drivers for the speed of the syncing in archive mode in parity ? Is that CPU ? Disk (hdd vs ssd) ? Memory (I ...
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Syncing a fraction of the blockchain
I wouldn't recommend using that approach of mocking/downloading the ethereum blockchain ahead of time to skip a full sync. If you want to just sync the bare minimum of the ethereum blockchain, you ...
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