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And isn't that just great? In order to verify my $1 payment to McDonalds all we have to do is acknowledge that can16358p loved his GF once. \s

I think no needing to store the whole chain while also not relying on verified shards or trusted peers will be a major breakthrough for BC-Tech in the future. Mina looks promising in that regard.

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can16358p paid for tx fees when the tx was mined. from that perspective that data should be there and even contributes to the network security. you too can write crap to the blockchain.

Still remember that years ago, before the bitcoin core client started to obfuscate on disk data, people mined transactions with EICAR as data and that got picked up by AVs

You already don’t need to. State is a merkle tree. https://eth.wiki/concepts/light-client-protocol

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