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Re:The Decentralized Future by zodiac on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:24AM (#16382597)
> A full archive node currently requires a 400GB SSD! You're only option is to run a light node,

Uh, what about running a full archive node? The bitcoin txo set is also much larger the the utxo set

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Re:The Decentralized Future by freejulian on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:03AM (#16383637)
Bitcoin doesn’t need an ssd to sync. Additionally, a bitcoin full node requires just 149gb — and it’s been around much longer than Ethereum! Ethereum is broken.
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Re:The Decentralized Future by zodiac on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:52PM (#16386001)
Do you mean full node or archive node? (ie is the 149gb a requirement for storing the txo set or the utxo set)
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Re:The Decentralized Future by freejulian on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:28PM (#16386313)
149gb for the txo set, the entire history.
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