Updated the Bitcoin full node size to state from April 2025 #15234
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Description
So in current version of whitepaper, that was frequently update there's still Bitcoin's full node size from April 2014. As 11 years passed I think this sentence deserves update and link to source that allows reader to check current state at the moment of reading.
The never-updated statement
The Merkle tree protocol is arguably essential to long-term sustainability. A "full node" in the Bitcoin network, one that stores and processes the entirety of every block, takes up about 15 GB of disk space in the Bitcoin network as of April 2014, and is growing by over a gigabyte per month.
Suggested update:
A "full node" in the Bitcoin network, which stores and processes the entirety of every block, requires approximately 600 GB of disk space as of April 2025, growing by roughly 50-60 GB per year due to the consistent addition of new blocks.
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Issue 15233