Vitalik Puts Pruning on Ethereum’s Roadmap

The removal of long term history through EIP-4444 is coming to ethereum according to a speech at EthCC by ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

“If we want scalability and if you want decentralization, the ability to run nodes easily, then you just can’t require nodes to store this constant ever-growing amount of space,” he said.