As Ethereum grows, so does its history – and the hard disk requirements for validators, whose wallets are hurting. During a Reddit AMA, Ethereum users spoke about dealing with past chain data and discussed ways to scale Ethereum L1. Meanwhile, founder Vitalik Buterin also added his take.
Buterin put forward two possible solutions to deal with Ethereum’s historical data. These included a one-time history expiry which would take place after the Merge, as well as a periodic history expiry with a shifting deadline, formally known as EIP-4444. He clarified that both solutions could be implemented.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>Ethereum clients currently store 275 GB of historical data that is unnecessary to validate the chain. That number Read more on ambcrypto.com