Ethereum Wallet.... what have they done

[mrkubanftw]

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.

[Kanapka]

Ethereum's blockchain for some reason already is bigger than Bitcoin's one. I don't know why and it probably will be a problem in the future.

[mrkubanftw]

Ethereum's blockchain for some reason already is bigger than Bitcoin's one. I don't know why and it probably will be a problem in the future.

Yeah it was seriously pushing 100GB last i checked. I see people techsplaining to just use a solid state drive. Yeah. Totally. Let me waste 200$ on a 500GB solidstate just for an ethereum node. Then i can junk it next year when it passes that size and re-download it for the next 6 months after that. Sick. Its a huge problem for me. If you can't easily access a hard wallet with or without the blockchain its a useless technology.

[Tipstar]

Unlike bitcoin, Ethereum has hash of the current database state (state_root, the root of the state trie) in the block header.
This makes the node of Ethereum huge compared to the node of bitcoin.

[mrkubanftw]

Unlike bitcoin, Ethereum has hash of the current database state (state_root, the root of the state trie) in the block header.
This makes the node of Ethereum huge compared to the node of bitcoin.

Still dude. It's 100GB in its current state. How big do you imagine it would need to be when its as old as say bitcoin today? You're talking in the TB size. This is not viable at all.