Bitcoins: a test transaction?

Question

bitcoin

I looked at the current exchange rate of bitcoins to one ruble: about 100 rubles for 1 bitcoin.
Decided to get myself a bitcoin wallet.
The address of wallets in the system has a length of 34 characters and looks something like this: 1BQ9qza7fn9snSCyJQB3ZcN46biBtkt4ee

Question for those who have their own wallet:
How much disk space does the client part of the wallet take up?
I remember someone scared me that it was almost 1 gigabyte !
Moreover, this gigabyte is not just stupidly generated on a computer,
but is specifically downloaded from the network. Is it true?
Otherwise, my GPRS connection will be a big bummer.

Answer 1

546Mb I have now. Yes, most of it is downloadable. The traffic per transaction did not measure.

Answer 2

At me now on the screw data of the client occupy ~1.5Gb. Of these, blk0001.dat and blkindex.dat make up 1.1Gb + 400M database folder with transaction logs. But wallet.dat is only 100K.
I did not measure data on traffic volumes per transaction, sorry.

Answer 3

100 rubles for 1 bitcoin

Oh times...

Answer 4

I personally did not bother, but opened an account on mtgox.com and transfer money to it. In my opinion, it’s more convenient, before that I used the mybitcoin.com online wallet, after the loss of a couple of transactions I refused their services.

Answer 5

the software itself and the wallet file weighs 20mb. and the history of all transactions in the network is downloaded from the network. Here it weighs a lot and is constantly growing. now about 1-1.5 GB. in future versions of the wallet, instead of full transactions, they promised to download and store only headers - it will take up much less space.

Answer 6

1010101001000100110100111 , the best option for you will be the one suggested by optemist , namely, create an account on mtgox.com and your personal wallet will be there.