Firsthand Bitcoin · Data · Bitcoin miners

Data / Blockchain size / 2026

Blockchain size in 2026

The size of the full bitcoin blockchain in gigabytes.

Blockchain size opened 2026 at 710.3 GB (January 1, 2026) and closed at 770.2 GB (September 21, 2026), up 8.4%. The high was 770.2 GB on September 21, 2026 and the low 710.3 GB on January 1, 2026.

Blockchain size, month by month in 2026

MonthMonth end
January 2026716.7 GB
February 2026723.4 GB
March 2026730.2 GB
April 2026737.1 GB
May 2026744.3 GB
June 2026751.1 GB
July 2026758.0 GB
August 2026765.2 GB
September 2026770.2 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: 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

Also in 2026: 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 · Miner prices per terahash · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price

The full history · CSV