> The current size for an Ethereum full node is 690 GB on Geth, or 394 GB on OpenEthereum. > You can buy a 1 TB SSD for about a hundred bucks. And Ethereum is

> The current size for an Ethereum full node is 690 GB on Geth, or 394 GB on OpenEthereum. > You can buy a 1 TB SSD for about a hundred bucks. And Ethereum is supposedly doing just over a million transactions a day [1] And it already requires a terabyte of data to support it. That's 1% of Alipay [2] That's 0.02% or thereabouts of Visa [3] How... How many terabytes will it need for those kinds of volumes? [1] https://etherscan.io/chart/tx https://etherscan.io/chart/tx [2] https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods/alipay https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods/alipay [3] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visanet-technology/aboutvisafactsheet.pdf https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visan...