Increase precision of Initial Block Download percent progress #334

1. 
   CrazyPython commented at 4:46 pm on May 16, 2021: none

   Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There are millions of Bitcoin users, but only ~100,000 Bitcoin full nodes. This threatens Bitcoin’s decentralization because it puts undue levels of control in custodial full node operators like Coinbase.

   Initial block download (IBD) is boring and slows down your computer.

   Describe the solution you’d like I would like to gamify IBD by adding progress bars, akin to idle/incremental games like Cookie Clicker of Adventure Capitalist.

   The existing progress bar is good, but not granular enough. It takes several seconds for 20.05% to become 20.06%. I propose increasing the granularity, such that it displays 20.053%. A continuously increasing number is fun to watch.

   Describe alternatives you’ve considered I updated bitcoin.org to say that it takes 7GB to run a Bitcoin pruned node. The request was successfully merged.

   Additional context Most people don’t run full nodes and use custodial solutions instead.

2. CrazyPython added the label Feature on May 16, 2021
3. CrazyPython renamed this:
   Make Initial Block Download more fun to set up a Bitcoin node by adding a block verification progress bar to make it like an idle game
   Increase precision of Initial Block Download percent progress
   on May 23, 2021
4. 
   CrazyPython commented at 8:21 pm on May 23, 2021: none

   This is part of my effort to encourage more people to run pruned nodes.
5. 
   Bosch-0 commented at 5:45 am on June 22, 2021: none

   I propose increasing the granularity, such that it displays 20.053%

   Cool idea, +1.

   I updated bitcoin.org to say that it takes 7GB to run a Bitcoin pruned node. The request was successfully merged.

   Not sure this is true, you can set a pruned node to be lower.

6. 
   hebasto commented at 6:13 am on June 22, 2021: member

   @Bosch-0

   I updated bitcoin.org to say that it takes 7GB to run a Bitcoin pruned node. The request was successfully merged.

   Not sure this is true, you can set a pruned node to be lower.

   A pruned node could has a lower size of a block storage (no less than 550 MiB). But block index (the block/index/ directory) and UTXOs (the chainstate/ directory) indeed require up to 7 GB.

7. 
   Bosch-0 commented at 6:27 am on June 22, 2021: none

   Ahh yep makes sense!

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