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When do you think we'll need to upgrade our storage from 1TB?

502 sats \ 27 comments \ @Bear 12 Feb 2023 bitcoin

So the pace of block storage is increased a lot... my node has 200GB left.
I think that 3MB every 10 min. will deplete my SSD in 14 months from now...
what are your plans?

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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @rax0m 13 Feb 2023

I think this "inscription" thing will 100% blow over.

My best guess is that average block size will come down to 1300 kB in a month or two.

[statoshi]

has some nice graphs. The top one will come down to "normal" when the new-found NFT hype has subsided.

[statoshi]: https://statoshi.info/d/000000002/blocks?orgId=1&from=now-2y&to=now

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @richnost 13 Feb 2023

It's a good time for the plebs to start graduating their RPi administration skills. It is certainly not a preferred event on the timeline, but the next block space scarcity crisis is clearly on the horizon, and we can think ordinals for accelerating the arrival of the attack scenario. I struggle to understand why people think this is "good for bitcoin".

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6 sats \ 17 replies \ @Eximpius 12 Feb 2023

If they keep going with almost 4MB blocks constantly, it'll be 2 years. Just do the math for whatever you think the average block size will be.

21 sats \ 15 replies \ @Eximpius 12 Feb 2023

How do you only have 200GB? The chain is only 517GB. I guess you are running other stuff. You will be less than a year if blocks start being 4MB constantly. 4MB blocks is 210GB a year.

11 sats \ 13 replies \ @Bear OP 12 Feb 2023

I have Fulcrum and whirlpool and LND and BOS and Sparrow terminal and ThunderHub and some stuff a Bitcoiner needs besides the blockchain...

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @Eximpius 12 Feb 2023

Damn sparrow does have a sparrow server.. I only ever tried Specter server.. Never saw the "click for more" button on github with sparrow version lol.

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6 sats \ 9 replies \ @Eximpius 12 Feb 2023

Fulcrum(electrum) is what's taking up more space.. I run electrs too. As for whirpool and BOS.... I wouldn't say you "need". I gotta try sparrow terminal.

1 sat \ 7 replies \ @Bear OP 12 Feb 2023

Sparrow is great you can use it to mix and move funds from one wallet to the node for free.

6 sats \ 5 replies \ @Eximpius 12 Feb 2023

I use sparrow, I just haven't used their server. Didn't know it existed lol

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @Eximpius 12 Feb 2023

So, I got sparrow server downloaded but there isn't much documentation on it. I have it in a folder on one of my debian servers. Is this thing ready to go and all I need to do is run the bin? I need some kinda document to know whats going on here.