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Blockchain size in 2021

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2021 at 319.1 GB (January 1, 2021) and closed at 383.0 GB (December 31, 2021), up 20.0%. The high was 383.0 GB on December 31, 2021 and the low 319.1 GB on January 1, 2021.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2021

MonthMonth end
January 2021325.0 GB
February 2021330.4 GB
March 2021336.5 GB
April 2021341.9 GB
May 2021347.9 GB
June 2021352.5 GB
July 2021357.1 GB
August 2021361.9 GB
September 2021366.8 GB
October 2021372.4 GB
November 2021377.6 GB
December 2021383.0 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 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2021: 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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