Does anyone have a legit answer as to why an Ethereum node takes WEEKS to download and update? It's at that completely unreasonable state where i seriously have no interest in this currency when a node takes this long to sync. The second i have any issues with my hard wallet i get to go into crisis mode initiating the month-long journey to gain access to my own wallet again.

On a side note Zcash only took about an hour to sync from nothing, only takes up about a gig, compared to the 100GB behemoth that is the ethereum chain. Christ you basically need a dedicated machine with a solid state to even run an eth node these days.


Enough ranting, is this molasses process the norm for everyone else too? Iv'e encountered this on at least 3 machines.