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Yeah no shit you can just increase the block size. That doesn’t result in better asymptotic scaling.

Spinning up an ethereum full node (“archive node”) is way harder than spinning up a Bitcoin full node, partially because the eth blockchain is over 7TB vs about 300GB for BTC.



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