Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital
by mbrock on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:51AM
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This is extremely widely misunderstood, one of those rampant FUD topics.
Archive nodes in Ethereum are almost completely superfluous.
An Ethereum archive node is not the same thing as a full node.
Archive nodes add zero extra security to the network. They are only useful for historical analysis of past states.
100% of the blockchain information is stored in non-archival full nodes.
The Ethereum system is a series of transactions that modify a state. The system is completely defined by the transactions. The latest state can be derived from them.
An archive node is a node that stores all past states for efficient retrieval.
Archive nodes in Ethereum are almost completely superfluous.
An Ethereum archive node is not the same thing as a full node.
Archive nodes add zero extra security to the network. They are only useful for historical analysis of past states.
100% of the blockchain information is stored in non-archival full nodes.
The Ethereum system is a series of transactions that modify a state. The system is completely defined by the transactions. The latest state can be derived from them.
An archive node is a node that stores all past states for efficient retrieval.