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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Brian Hoffman <brianchoffman@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoind-in-background mode for SPV wallets
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:57:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgTx40XSLhiygnJMrSbOC=iJ2YMVLNK7-AMt3ifvAHDZUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADm4BCEFCiOpNzUThPPHUamP2256izU8pwD3nerLCxks0wENA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Brian Hoffman <brianchoffman@gmail.com> wrote:
> How would this affect the user in terms of disk storage? They're going to
> get hammered on space constraints aren't they? If it's not required how
> likely are users to enable this?

If Bitcoin core activates pruning a full node can be supported in—
say— 4GBytes or so. (That gives enough space to store the utxo about
350MB now, and a couple gigs for blocks to serve out).

I'd imagine getting information from SPV wallet developers how much
disk usage agility they think is required is part of what Wladimir is
looking for.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-09 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-09 15:29 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoind-in-background mode for SPV wallets Wladimir
2014-04-09 15:37 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 15:41 ` Natanael
2014-04-09 15:54   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 16:09     ` Thomas Voegtlin
2014-04-09 19:25       ` Wladimir
2014-04-10  6:04         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10 11:09           ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 11:29             ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 11:32             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 11:43               ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 11:50               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-10 11:54                 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 17:30                   ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-11 16:54                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-04 21:11                       ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-09 17:31   ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 15:42 ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-09 15:57   ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2014-04-09 16:09     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 15:47       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-09 16:27         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 17:46           ` Peter Todd
2014-04-09 17:50             ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 18:00               ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-09 18:19                 ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 18:35                   ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-09 18:46                     ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 18:50                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 18:58                       ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-09 19:33                         ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 20:12                           ` slush
2014-04-09 20:31                             ` slush
2014-04-09 20:36                               ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-09 21:04                                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 20:37                               ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 20:35                             ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 20:50                               ` slush
2014-04-09 20:55                             ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-04-10  6:38                             ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10  6:50                               ` Wladimir
2014-04-10  7:09                                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10  9:33                                   ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10  7:10                                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10  9:17                                   ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10  9:39                                     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10 10:40                                       ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 10:44                                         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10 11:36                                           ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 11:45                                             ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 11:52                                               ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10  9:47                                     ` Peter Todd
2014-04-09 18:04               ` Peter Todd
     [not found]   ` <CA+s+GJBpvqqu=XEojyekx5su+JfYLwz+zsbo8L0=5t6s-_b33w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-09 17:35     ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Wladimir
2014-04-09 16:03 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Peter Todd
2014-04-09 17:33   ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-04-09 17:38     ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 17:38     ` Peter Todd
2014-04-09 18:35 ` Kevin

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