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Comment Re:Size of blockchain (Score 1) 142

Your numbers are wildly wrong. Today the Ethereum chain weights 917 GB, and a year ago it weighted 456 GB. Even if you use Parity, it's still around of 400 GB.

The "plan" to deal with it has been in action for a long time already: most nodes don't have the full history anymore. They only keep a chunk of the most recent blocks, and when an operation needs a value which is not on that slice, they contact a history node to get the relevant values.
Which is not very decentralised or trustless, if you ask me.

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