Question/Request: Directory for data that should persist over updates.

[Seth Arnold]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:00:59PM +0100, Lefteris Karapetsas wrote:
> Yes exactly. It's a question of data size. Big databases, or blockchains in
> my case, can't afford to be copied, especially when we are dealing with
> embedded devices that already have very limited storage, say a 32GB SDcard
> on a Raspberry PI.

Just for my own curiosity, I thought the bitcoin blockchain was over
55 gigabytes at this point and appears to be growing exponentially;
even with a 128GB SD card it feels like you'd run out of storage in ~18
months or so:

https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

Are your devices going to start with multi-terabyte hard drives? Or do
they only need to store a starting hash and then begin recording The
Future?

Thanks
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