You can also run a pruned node, basically you download everything and verify it as you go, but once you've computed the utxo set at a given block, you can throw

You can also run a pruned node, basically you download everything and verify it as you go, but once you've computed the utxo set at a given block, you can throw that block away. Pruned nodes I think are like 2 GB right now? Something in that ballpark.