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Blockchain size in 2020

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2020 at 256.1 GB (January 1, 2020) and closed at 318.9 GB (December 31, 2020), up 24.5%. The high was 318.9 GB on December 31, 2020 and the low 256.1 GB on January 1, 2020.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2020

MonthMonth end
January 2020260.6 GB
February 2020265.2 GB
March 2020269.8 GB
April 2020274.7 GB
May 2020280.0 GB
June 2020285.2 GB
July 2020290.9 GB
August 2020296.6 GB
September 2020302.2 GB
October 2020307.5 GB
November 2020313.2 GB
December 2020318.9 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 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2020: 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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