Odaily Planet Daily News Ethereum co-founder Vitalk Buterin said during Korea Blockchain Week: "In the long run, we have plans to maintain a fully verified Ethereum node that you can run on your phone."
Full nodes are computing devices that verify all transactions and smart contracts on Ethereum. Currently, the hardware specifications required for a full node include a solid-state drive (SSD) larger than 2 TB and 16 GB of RAM. These requirements increase the degree of centralization, and most full nodes run on centralized servers like AWS.
Vitalik emphasized six key points that must be resolved to solve the centralization problem of the Ethereum network, and said that full nodes are an important part of Ethereum's pursuit of a higher degree of decentralization. He also mentioned ethereum's roadmap, which includes "stateless clients" using "Verkle trees." (Decrypt)
In the news earlier today, Vitalik Buterin said that node centralization is one of the main challenges facing Ethereum, which should be solved by reducing and simplifying the operating costs of nodes, but the perfect solution may take another 10 or even 20 years. Year. According to him, the most pressing issue for ethereum as a whole is achieving higher levels of scalability.