with every passing year the length of the blockchain and the data stored within, is going to exponentially increase. every time a new full node joins the network, the entire blockchain and DB(state/storage trie) is replicated right now, it takes a few hours, but ... In a few years, how the replication for new full node, is going to remain sustainable ? many of you might have thought about this, seeking expert opinions and information
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https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.html "Ethereum is planning to use quadratic sharding, where total scalability is limited by the fact that a node has to be able to process both a single shard and the beacon chain which has to perform some fixed amount of management work for each shard."
– Ganesh Ghag Jan 18 '22 at 05:40