If you go… Chasing Rabbits

If you go… Chasing Rabbits

The EOS blockchain is growing in size, and it’s becoming a problem. The number of BPs storing the full blockchain history has dwindled down to 5: Greymass, EOS Sw/eden, CryptoLions, EOS Tribe, and EOS Canada. In this episode we explore the issues with full history, including the vulnerabilities this introduces and the potential solutions to it.

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SOURCES:

Size of Ethereum (we used Geth w/ FAST Sync for the 140GB number):
https://etherscan.io/chart2/chaindatasizefast

When Greymass went down:
https://www.reddit.com/r/eos/comments/9y9i21/greymass_weekly_producer_update_20181118/

Cryptolions gives history on the MongoDB plugin:
https://medium.com/@cryptolions/a-brief-history-of-our-history-plugin-fe146401bb1a

dfuse:
https://www.dfuse.io/en

Greymass introduces Light History Nodes:
https://steemit.com/eos/@greymass/introducing-light-history-nodes-for-eos

EOS42’s Voter Pooling initiative:
https://medium.com/@eos42/cooperative-voting-infrastructure-bounties-19c6f39cf57d

EOS42’s blog post on State History:
https://medium.com/@eos42/scalable-full-history-nodes-b4eccf113d57

Attic Lab on new Elasticsearch API:
https://medium.com/eosatticlab/its-history-time-with-attic-lab-76fec7e78cd8

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