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Blockchain size in 2018

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2018 at 150.1 GB (January 1, 2018) and closed at 198.0 GB (December 31, 2018), up 31.9%. The high was 198.0 GB on December 31, 2018 and the low 150.1 GB on January 1, 2018.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2018

MonthMonth end
January 2018155.3 GB
February 2018159.7 GB
March 2018163.6 GB
April 2018166.9 GB
May 2018170.4 GB
June 2018174.0 GB
July 2018178.0 GB
August 2018181.8 GB
September 2018185.4 GB
October 2018189.5 GB
November 2018193.7 GB
December 2018198.0 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 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2018: 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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