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Blockchain size in 2022

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2022 at 383.2 GB (January 1, 2022) and closed at 445.9 GB (December 31, 2022), up 16.4%. The high was 445.9 GB on December 31, 2022 and the low 383.2 GB on January 1, 2022.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2022

MonthMonth end
January 2022388.1 GB
February 2022393.0 GB
March 2022398.4 GB
April 2022403.5 GB
May 2022409.0 GB
June 2022414.1 GB
July 2022419.3 GB
August 2022424.6 GB
September 2022429.7 GB
October 2022435.1 GB
November 2022440.6 GB
December 2022445.9 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 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2022: 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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