One of the biggest disconnects between the BTC and the ETH camp is the difference in terminology when it comes to "archive nodes".
In BTC, "archive nodes" are vital, since they are the only ones storing the entire block history since genesis, even if they don't store state data.
@ercwl@EliBenSasson I think I'm out of the loop. In what sense is the choice between right vs left?
What's Democrat-y about core? What's Republican-y about Knots?
@RealityAbsorber @JourneyMacro@Rewkang That Etherscan chart only covers Geth, one out of many clients, and the worst case for archives.
It's not "impossible" to run a more apt client for the purpose you're looking for. Saying so is disingenuous.
@jessebabies@glue_fi@ethereumintern_ You need neither higher bandwidth nor more powerful hardware to run an archival node. All you need is a few 100 GB more than a regular node :)
@robertskmiles The last point is systemic though, not individual.
You can tend your garden on step one and two, but step three will always get you in one way or another.
@clairesilver@songadaymann "These violent delights have violent ends" reads to me as a lamentation (not celebration) that our society relishes violence and the means of violence, and that this unfortunately has a significant. toll.