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Vitalik Buterin described partially stateless nodes verifying the chain without full Merkle proofs or complete history, potentially halving storage requirements
Vitalik Buterin's proposal lets nodes keep only data subsets relevant to users, sharply lowering storage demands
Vitalik Buterin introduced the scaling concept called "partially stateless nodes" to reduce hardware requirements for Ethereum nodes
Vitalik Buterin noted Ethereum currently needs over 1 TB for state plus about 0.5 TB for history, pushing full‑node storage above 1.5 TB and discouraging typical users

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Vitalik Buterin proposes “partially stateless nodes” as new strategy to scale Ethereum

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