<p>The relevant space used is the one needed to store the blockchain, the public registry where all the bitcoin transaction are recorded. It's currently about 16GB, you can have a look of the growing rate here <a href="https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size" rel="nofollow">https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size</a></p>

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Riccardo Casatta
<p>How much space needed to run Bitcoin daemon in amazon AMI(ubuntu 12.04), I am currently having 20GB is that enough suppose i want to run multiple coin daemon say 6 coin daemons how much space(approx) i needed?  </p>

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These clients also need a substantial amount of memory, which may be another consideration.
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How much space needed to run Bitcoin daemon in amazon AMI?
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# How much space needed to run Bitcoin daemon in amazon AMI?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-03)

How much space needed to run Bitcoin daemon in amazon AMI(ubuntu 12.04), I am currently having 20GB is that enough suppose i want to run multiple coin daemon say 6 coin daemons how much space(approx) i needed?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: These clients also need a substantial amount of memory, which may be another consideration.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-04-03. Score: 1

The relevant space used is the one needed to store the blockchain, the public registry where all the bitcoin transaction are recorded. It's currently about 16GB, you can have a look of the growing rate here <https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size>


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