The 350 GB recommendation is already outdated, since the Hive blockchain increases by roughly 2 GB per week. Let's say we need 500 GB of local SSD storage right now for the blockchain, since 4 months have passed since the former recommendation.
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That is worrisome as there are only a few thousand people using the chain. What happens when things go mainstream and it goes YouTube scale?
There are already roughly 2 million Hive accounts here on Hive, and some of them are operated by bots.
If Hive does get much more popular, it would adjust accordingly by increasing Resource Credit costs for every transaction to lessen the rate the blockchain size increases.
Anyway, welcome to Hive. Have a !PIZZA.
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