[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#835809: bitcoind: Blockchain needs 87+ GB of space, not 20+

[Anthony Towns]

> The description of the bitcoin* packages mentions the following line:
> This requires 20+ GB of space, slowly growing.
>
> That info seems to be severely outdated and actually uses 87+ GB on
> my system, which is more then 4 times as much. I've put the severity
> at normal instead of minor/wishlist as it failed to work properly on a
> system where I had around 50GB space free when/where I installed it.

You might want to look into the "pruning" feature, that allows you to
run bitcoind with as little as a few gigabytes.

(The description still needs an update though)

Cheers,
aj