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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Bitcoin SV Sustainability Questioned, Blockchain Size Over 7 Terabytes - BeInCrypto

The Bitcoin SV (Satoshi’s Vision) blockchain has crossed 7 TB in total size. It is adding about 4 GB per day, which is receiving some criticism.
The Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) blockchain has crossed 7 TB, as seen in network data. The network is adding about 4 GB per day, as noted by cypherpunk and software engineer Jameson Lopp. He said that the resource is “being priced at ~$50 per gigabyte in transaction fees” and that it was an “epic unsustainable self-own.”
The network has been growing exponentially since July 2021, when it was under 4 TB in size. Compare that to bitcoin, which is about 430 GB in total size, and Ethereum, which is about 943 GB in size. A $50 increase in transaction fees per GB is substantial, and at 4 GB per day, that’s a $200 increase that would be economically challenging.
Bitcoin SV is a hard fork of the Bitcoin Cash protocol, which took place in 2018. The purported goal was to create a more advanced version of the original Bitcoin protocol, and it was...



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