That’s a very fair take. I’ve always thought one of the best qualities of crypto is its potential use as like a digital proof of history.
But I never really considered the continuous cost of keeping data around forever.
Would either one of the next upgrades for the network help solve this issue by allowing some data to not be kept forever? I forget if it’s blob space or danksharing but one of these allows for data to be removed after some time right?
Then what are the chances that our need for data storage does not grow as fast as our data storage capabilities? That seems to be the trend over the years with most technology. So if our capacity is increasing and ethereum is becoming more efficient with the data it stores is there a case it is sustainable to keep this data on the network for a very very long time? That sounds realistic to me.
That’s a very fair take. I’ve always thought one of the best qualities of crypto is its potential use as like a digital proof of history.
But I never really considered the continuous cost of keeping data around forever.
Would either one of the next upgrades for the network help solve this issue by allowing some data to not be kept forever? I forget if it’s blob space or danksharing but one of these allows for data to be removed after some time right?
Then what are the chances that our need for data storage does not grow as fast as our data storage capabilities? That seems to be the trend over the years with most technology. So if our capacity is increasing and ethereum is becoming more efficient with the data it stores is there a case it is sustainable to keep this data on the network for a very very long time? That sounds realistic to me.