News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Ethereum merge is done. Parent comment

Re:The Ethereum merge is done by MuffinFlavored on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:19PM (#32857929)
> where all peers hold a full copy

how large is a full copy these days?

how are peers jump started and why is that mechanism trusted so well? like say I want to connect to the blockchain, I need to make an API request to some IP. how is that resolved and why is that regarded as "decentralized"? why is the mechanism for serving me peers trusted and why is every peer in the network trusted?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Ethereum merge is done by warkdarrior on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:27PM (#32858017)
It's between 800GB and 1.2TB total, depending on whether you just need to validate future transactions or past txns as well.

Source: https://etherscan.io/chartsync/chaindefault

[ Parent | on HN ]