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Vitalik Buterin: AI Hardware Boom Makes Running an Ethereum Node at Home Easier Than Ever

  • —Buterin's pruned Geth node occupies only 461 GiB
  • —Full Ethereum node sync now takes about 12 hours
  • —Disk requirements for a full node fell below 0.5 TB
  • —The upcoming Glamsterdam hard fork will further speed up L1 sync
Why it matters: Lower hardware requirements make home node operation more accessible, strengthening Ethereum's decentralization and user privacy.
Source: U.Today