Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07 📝 Original message:> > * Sent 456.5 gb data > ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07
📝 Original message:>
> * Sent 456.5 gb data
>
> At my geographic service location (Singapore), this cost about $90 last
> month for bandwidth alone.


One of the reasons I initiated the (now stalled) PayFile project was in
anticipation of this problem:

https://github.com/mikehearn/PayFile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0BXnWlnIi4&feature=youtu.be

At some point if you want to actually download and validate the full block
chain from scratch, you will have to start paying for it I'm sure.

In the meantime:

1. Getting headers-first implemented and rolled out everywhere would
reduce the amount of redundant downloading and hopefully reduce transmit
traffic network-wide.
2. Implementing chain pruning would allow people to control upload
bandwidth consumption by reducing the amount of disk storage they allow.
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