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Comment by suikadayo | Hacker News Reader

Decentralization increasingly untrue? Ethereum consensus and execution layer nodes are at about 6k, under Bitcoin, and way above other projects.

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If the network grows [1] at 2MB/14s that's:

    2/14*3600 = 514MB per hour
    514*24 = 12.3GB per day
    12.3*30 = 369GB per month

Even if the underlying blockchain is decentralized, I have no practical way of participating without doing it via some centralized exchange.

How many nodes will there be if ETH hits $0? What will happen to the services like ENS?

1. https://www.bitrates.com/guides/ethereum/how-many-ethereum-a...

Is the above accurate? Wikipedia says the whole network is 1TB, so that doesn't quite add up for me.

It’s about 1.1TB for full sync geth nodes, and growing. Ethereum researchers are looking into statelessness and state expiry which aim to make it even easier to run nodes with little need for space.

People will continue to run nodes regardless of the price of ETH, just like Bitcoin.

ENS is a smart contract protocol, so I don’t see how it’s related.

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