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You can do this locally though, it just takes like 200 GB. I've run an Ethereum full node + eth2 beacon chain node on my Macbook Pro for local development, took like 10 hours to sync IIRC and just worked afterwards. I still use Infura for projects though bc I don't really see the value in running my own hosted client for pet projects. If I was doing a production app I'd likely use my own w/ a 3rd party service for backup/HA.

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That's the size now. If web3 manages to take off, the requirement will grow exponentially.

Ethereum has plans for state expiry, so that to maintain a verified copy of the blockchain you won't be expected to maintain a growing list of state transitions since genesis anymore.

A sister initiative, weak statelessness, means that you will be able to verify the validity of the chain without needing to store state at all.

https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/verkle_and_state_expiry...

https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/state_expiry_eip

But that's just it.. One would have to stand up a server that hosted the 200gb, so their Iphone users could consume the data. Or they'd go through a central server.

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