Technical Question: Feathercoin Blockchain Size
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Hello Feathercoin experts,
I’m new here, so please pardon me if it’s a silly question. Anyway, from what I understand, Feathercoin mines a new block every minute, comparing to Bitcoin’s 10 minutes and Litecoin’s 2.5 minutes. On one hand, this ensures faster transactions, but it also means that Feathercoin’s blockchain grows 10 times faster than Bitcoin’s.
Wouldn’t this lead to scalability problem for clients down the road? The Bitcoin’s block chain is already over 130 GB which makes it nearly impossible to store locally. In case of Feathercoin, it would be 1.3 TB, right?
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That would be true in the case the blocks are full - which is not the case right now.
Also ones Feathercoin gets updated to be based on a newer Bitcoin Core release there will be pruning (down to 550 MB as with Bitcoin).
But yes, it might create some difficulties long term regarding bandwith, validation time and storage. However, I think as long as we don’t increase the blocksize we’re probably fine. Some more research on this would be good though.
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The size of the block chain also depends on the size of a the blocks contained.
The size of a block is influenced by the number and size of the transactions contained in that block.The Feathercoin block chain currently is about 2.1 Gbyte.
Bitcoin already has implemented some features to reduce the actual size of data stored on a client and we will do the same for Feathercoin in the future
