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what happens when everyone on the chain discards old transactions?
by dmitriid 5y ago
what happens when everyone on the chain discards old transactions?
- wmf 5y agoThat would be bad. Archive nodes are needed.
- dmitriid 5y agoSo. What safeguards are in place against this? Except, you know, "trust us, this will never happen". Given that blockchain size is now 346GB while it handles a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the number of transactions that the rest of the world runs.