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Blockchain size in 2013

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2013 at 4.7 GB (January 1, 2013) and closed at 14.0 GB (December 31, 2013), up 200.9%. The high was 14.0 GB on December 31, 2013 and the low 4.7 GB on January 1, 2013.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2013

MonthMonth end
January 20135.3 GB
February 20136.0 GB
March 20136.8 GB
April 20137.7 GB
May 20138.5 GB
June 20139.2 GB
July 20139.7 GB
August 201310.5 GB
September 201311.2 GB
October 201312.0 GB
November 201313.0 GB
December 201314.0 GB

Everything a full node stores. It grows by roughly a block’s worth every ten minutes, a little under 100 GB a year at today’s block sizes.

Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014

Also in 2013: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market

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