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Re:The Internet Trolls the FBI’s “Private” Bitcoin Wallet by gigq on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:32AM (#6508860)
Bitcoin does have the ability to store this kind of information in the actual blockchain, but blockchain.info decided it was not worth the bloat.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7864/is-a-public-...

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Re:The Internet Trolls the FBI’s “Private” Bitcoin Wallet by nwh on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:52AM (#6509033)
That's incorrect. You can shoehorn your data in, and blockchain.info tried for a period, but removed it when it drew the ire of almost every core developer. It just wastes space and bloats the unspent outputs database.
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Re:The Internet Trolls the FBI’s “Private” Bitcoin Wallet by sliverstorm on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:58PM (#6511575)
Good to hear. Bitcoin already occupied 5-8GB last time I fired my client up, many moons ago.
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Re:The Internet Trolls the FBI’s “Private” Bitcoin Wallet by nwh on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:01PM (#6511599)
13GB with indexes now. If it's an issue, just use an SPV client like MultiBit that doesn't store the blockchain at all.
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