This silliness keeps coming out now and then. If you are genuinely interested, why didn't you search a little on the forum?
As calculated here, it takes at least 5 years for each 1 TB in the blockchain. And 1 TB of HDD is cheap and gets cheaper by every year passing.
Then, you should know that a node needs to download big amount of data only at the first sync, until it's catching up. Afterward the stress on the internet connection is not that big. And internet, again, is evolving to larger bandwidth and cheaper.
So... do you see any
real problem? Cause I don't.
Sorry I didn't mean to come off ignorant. I also think there are any serious problems with the blockchain size but just wasn't sure I was missing anything.
This came about when I looked at what the Mina blockchain was doing. They use zk proofs to keep blockchain size fixed at 22kb but it obviously has a lot of trade-offs and can lead to problems if the full history needs to be accessed. And their archived full chain is currently stored on Google Cloud lol.