Ask HN: Is there a solution to the Bitcoin blockchain growth problem?

Is there a method of purging old transactions from the chain, or will it continue growing forever?

The blockchain is the history of every transaction. If transactions are purged then transfers from 1 account to another would dissapear from the history and it would essentially be like the transfer never happened.

I won't say there is no solution to the problem but purging transactions is not at the top of the list.

So the chain will continue getting longer and longer, with no end, as I understand it. At some point this is going to be a problem because it will exceed normal storage sizes. Is there a solution to that?

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