is snowblossom actually surprisingly sparing in regards to the use of disk space?

I'm not doing anything particularly tricky. Transactions might in fact be stored twice (one in the block, once outside in a separate map)

but protobuf in general is pretty good about being terse

~8GB on disk feels small these days

yeah, that is true

I have been spending all my time on the advent of code, which is fun

I am finally caught up after a slow start

i’m prevalidating FLANG for an old customer