* Sent 456.5 gb data

At my geographic service location (Singapore), this cost about $90 last month for bandwidth alone.

One of the reasons I initiated the (now stalled) PayFile project was in anticipation of this problem:

https://github.com/mikehearn/PayFile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0BXnWlnIi4&feature=youtu.be

At some point if you want to actually download and validate the full block chain from scratch, you will have to start paying for it I'm sure.

In the meantime:

1. Getting headers-first implemented and rolled out everywhere would reduce the amount of redundant downloading and hopefully reduce transmit traffic network-wide.
   
2. Implementing chain pruning would allow people to control upload bandwidth consumption by reducing the amount of disk storage they allow.

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