Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has presented “The Purge,” the fifth installment in a series of proposed upgrades designed to streamline the Ethereum network’s data storage and protocol complexity.

This update is crucial as Ethereum’s long-term scalability, security, and sustainability hinge on a stable, manageable data architecture.

Tackling Ethereum Data Storage

Buterin’s Purge upgrade introduces a framework that targets Ethereum’s growing storage demands. By eliminating outdated network history, it aims to alleviate bottlenecks and cut the hard drive space required to run a node.

Currently, running an Ethereum node requires around 1.1 terabytes of disk space for the execution client alone, along with several hundred more gigabytes for the consensus client. Indeed, storage requirements grow by hundreds of gigabytes each year, even without raising Ethereum’s gas limit.

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The Purge suggests a decentralized approach to data storage across network nodes. Instead of each node holding the full network history, they could store smaller, randomized segments. This would allow the network to maintain data redundancy without every node needing to store the same information.

“If, by making node running more affordable, we can get to a network with 100,000 nodes, where each node stores a random 10% of the history, then each

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Author: Oluwapelumi Adejumo