Why don't blockchains truncate?

• nano-node

  692 3,466 9.8 C++

  Nano is digital currency. Its ticker is: XNO and its currency symbol is: Ӿ

  

Nano has implemented experimental ledger pruning, which allows nodes to discard all but the latest confirmed blocks for accounts. Given it's still experimental, nodes currently have to opt into it though.

• bsc

  74 2,562 9.9 Go

  A BNB Smart Chain client based on the go-ethereum fork

  

In BSC's case the issue isn't quite that the current storage requirements are too high (you can check them out here: https://github.com/binance-chain/bsc/issues/264), but that the rate at which it is going up is so much higher than in Ethereum's case. Think of blocksize like car speed and distance from your origin like state bloat. Raising the block limit is like pressing on the accelerator.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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