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Blockchain size in 2015

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2015 at 28.6 GB (January 1, 2015) and closed at 54.5 GB (December 31, 2015), up 90.9%. The high was 54.5 GB on December 31, 2015 and the low 28.6 GB on January 1, 2015.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2015

MonthMonth end
January 201530.1 GB
February 201531.7 GB
March 201533.5 GB
April 201535.2 GB
May 201536.9 GB
June 201538.9 GB
July 201541.6 GB
August 201543.8 GB
September 201546.3 GB
October 201548.7 GB
November 201551.3 GB
December 201554.5 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 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2015: 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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