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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by noxer on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:01PM (#27259032)
The blockhcain may be "forever" but the history is definitely is not. Its a lie because the most likely outcome are that Ethereum dies because the history cripples it to an unusable system (its a lie then) or the the history dependency is removed so it can keep working (its a lie then as well because which part of the history is preserved is up to whoever does want to preserve it and no longer "guaranteed by the system")

BTW history-sharding[1] isn't that complicated. If a DLT is build from the ground up with payment in mind and thus history is completely optional then you dont have to do any tech magic. But ofc this is not the case for Ethereum as it was not made for payment.

[1]https://xrpl.org/history-sharding.html

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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by CryptoPunk on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:12AM (#27261492)
State expiry/rent is being worked on in Ethereum, and would totally solve the problem of indefinite state size growth. This article, courtesy again of the hard-working Buterin, details the designs under consideration:

https://hackmd.io/@vbuterin/state_expiry_paths

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