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Blockchain size in 2017

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2017 at 97.2 GB (January 1, 2017) and closed at 149.9 GB (December 31, 2017), up 54.3%. The high was 149.9 GB on December 31, 2017 and the low 97.2 GB on January 1, 2017.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2017

MonthMonth end
January 2017101.3 GB
February 2017105.3 GB
March 2017109.8 GB
April 2017114.0 GB
May 2017118.7 GB
June 2017123.1 GB
July 2017127.4 GB
August 2017131.5 GB
September 2017135.5 GB
October 2017140.1 GB
November 2017144.6 GB
December 2017149.9 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 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2017: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · 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

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