that's what blockchain pruning is all about :) 2014-04-10 17:47 GMT+01:00 Brian Hoffman <brianchoff...@gmail.com>: > Looks like only about ~30% disk space savings so I see your point. Is there > a critical reason why blocks couldn't be formed into "superblocks" that are > chained together and nodes could serve a specific superblock, which could be > pieced together from different nodes to get the full blockchain? This would > allow participants with limited resources to serve full portions of the > blockchain rather than limited pieces of the entire blockchain. > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: >> >> Suggestions always welcome! >> >> The main problem with this is that the block chain is mostly random bytes >> (hashes, keys) so it doesn't compress that well. It compresses a bit, but >> not enough to change the fundamental physics. >> >> However, that does not mean the entire chain has to be stored on expensive >> rotating platters. I've suggested that in some star trek future where the >> chain really is gigantic, it could be stored on tape and spooled off at high >> speed. Literally a direct DMA from tape drive to NIC. But we're not there >> yet :) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >
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