j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM{<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=286.msg2663#msg2663">Quote from: knightmb on July 13, 2010, 10:08:58 PM</a></div><div class="quote">Given that the formula for coin generation should be known somewhere, can't someone just calculate how much disk space X amount of coins will take given XYZ transactions, etc.<br/>I'm curious myself to how much space it will take. <img alt="Smiley" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/smiley.gif"/><br/></div><br/>From the <a href='http://"http://www.bitcoin.org/sites/default/files/bitcoin.pdf'>pdf</a>: <br/>"A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes."<br/>and<br/>"Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks, the spent transactions before <br/>it can be discarded to save disk space."<br/><br/>so 80 x number of blocks + average transaction size * number of transactions.<br/><br/>Practically, from my disk:<br/>77428 transactions in 66663 blocks is about 46,752,464 bytes.<br/>which works out to about 600 bytes per transaction (including block headers + database overheads)<br/><br/><br/><br/></div> text/html
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