I downloaded Mist a few days ago (v0.8.7) and sync'd all the blocks and saw it was ~9.7G.
However, there are articles of it being ~9G back in Mar 16' (http://www.helenabitcoinmining.com/2016/03/05/ethereums-blockchain-already-over-9gb-in-size/)
Then this article in July 16 talks about it nearing 30G (http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/ethereum-blockchain-size/)
Why the discrepancies? Are there different versions or flavours?
However, there are articles of it being ~9G back in Mar 16' (http://www.helenabitcoinmining.com/2016/03/05/ethereums-blockchain-already-over-9gb-in-size/)
Then this article in July 16 talks about it nearing 30G (http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/ethereum-blockchain-size/)
Why the discrepancies? Are there different versions or flavours?