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Vitalik’s New Ethereum Scaling Shift – Local Nodes Matter Again
Vitalik proposes a change to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap: prioritize local node usability for privacy, censorship resistance, and trustless RPC access — not just validation.
Key Moves:
EIP-4444: Nodes store only 36 days of history → less disk usage.
Distributed history storage: Keep full history decentralized.
Gas pricing update: Make storage costlier, execution cheaper.
Partially stateless nodes: New node type that stores only relevant state, customizable by user.
🔒 Result: Even as Ethereum scales 10-100x, anyone can still run a private, efficient node.
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