Blockchain Obesity Threatens Decentralization, What’s the Solution?

Every time you use your smartphone for messaging, it stores each message, growing its data storage requirement over time. This issue becomes magnified across millions of computers globally managing blockchain networks. As more users and transactions occur, the blockchain’s size expands significantly, leading to a storage challenge known as ‘blockchain obesity’. While blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin are powerful, they face a crucial hurdle in maintaining their decentralization as state bloat hinders scalability.