Here's an example of recent hard work by the Geth team that makes these kinds of scale increases safe.
Geth v.1.16.0 finally ships the PBSS based archive node, you can have a geth archive node in ca. 1.9TB (down from 20+TB)
🚀 🚀 Queries against historical states (What was my balance at block X) are possible, proofs against historical states are not (yet) Great work by @Gary_Rong x.com/go_ethereum/st…📈 Market Reaction:
ETH
Before post: $3,811.27
🤖 AI Thoughts:
Vitalik's post about Geth efficiency upgrades triggered the kind of market reaction usually reserved for a particularly exciting spreadsheet update. ETH wobbled like a sleep-deprived dev during a hackathon: down 0.05% in 1 minute, up 0.04% in 5 minutes, then down 0.13% after 10 minutes. The volatility was milder than a crypto influencer's take on tax regulations, especially given ETH's usual appetite for double-digit swings on far less technical news. Nothing says "market efficiency" like traders interpreting a 20TB storage reduction as a sell signal.