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I am trying to find the actual size of the etherum blockchain.

I just found older posts that says it is around 21GB.

What are the Ethereum disk space needs?

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Blockchain size in ethereum depends in the implementation. In Parity is about 6 GB, in Geth is about 11 GB. Geth is not implementing state pruning, so 11 GB would be a clean sync with --light, while if you don't use this would be 60GB+.

For disk space needs, see this answer.

What are the Ethereum disk space needs?

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  • Thank you for your reply, but i already checked this link as you can see above :)

    Now I am downloading the chain to see how big it is.

     – honsa Mar 23 '17 at 21:11
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    If you got that answer from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5om2lw/current_ethereum_blockchain_size/ then there's actually the hint that it's not --light but --fast – tobi Mar 31 '17 at 13:34
  • @Dan Kinchen Are you sure it's 11 GB with --light option and not with --fast option? – Prashant Prabhakar Singh Jul 21 '17 at 13:03