nootropicat

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   by nootropicat 9y ago

   That IOTA team is good at marketing but IOTA itself is worthless.
2. 422.▲
   by nootropicat 9y ago

   Black Mirror predicted this in a much more realistic business case - forcing users to view ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleMXX24v5g&t=52s
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   by nootropicat 9y ago

   It's a very confusing attempt to explain the difference between kernel and user memory space. I don't think article's authors understand it.
4. 424.▲
   by nootropicat 9y ago

   Smart contracts can have arbitrary state, but in general, yes. An archival node stores the state for each block which is only useful for block explorers and similar. That's indeed likely to take 1TB in 2018 - hardly a problem.
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   by nootropicat 9y ago

   That's wrong, please read this: https://dev.to/5chdn/the-ethereum-blockchain-size-will-not-e... >Even BitGo, a commercial payment company, has trouble maintaining datacenter servers that can keep up with the io
6. 426.▲
   by nootropicat 9y ago

   No, pruning in ethereum means not storing old states (=results of executing all blocks at height H), not removing old blocks. As of now the bare blockchain + the state takes only about 20+2GB. It takes more on a live node due to db space am