This time I set up an Ethereum node from scratch, using the Go Ethereum (geth) utility. Again, I used the same Ubuntu 16.04 installation on an old Packard Bell laptop (dual 1.6 GHz processor, 500 Gb hard disk, 4Gb RAM), as I did for Bitcoin (with Bitcoin core stopped), running on a 24 Mbps network connection.
It took a total of 14 hours for the blockchain with the –fast option to be downloaded and verified. As of today the Ethereum basic chain with current states but no past history weighs in at 35 Gb of data in total.
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