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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by redox99 on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:31PM (#31481178)
The biggest challenge in general is that the approach of storing every transaction forever leads to petabytes of storage. And you can't expect a decentralized system to require petabytes of storage.
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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by bogomipz on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:56PM (#31482524)
I apologize if this a naive question but Proof of work is also decentralized no? Why does Proof of Stake incur these scaling limitations but Proof of work does not?
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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by coffeeblack on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:44AM (#31501327)
Both do.
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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by bogomipz on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:48AM (#31506225)
Can you elaborate? The person I was replying to indicated that the problem was one of storage however the only scalability problems I have seen written about have been around transaction processing.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

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Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) by MacroChip on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:40AM (#31516767)
Not every node has to store every transaction ever. Nodes can prune old state
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