The idea is that the amount of disk space that you need doesn't grow to infinity. This allows the economics to match this where we can decide that only the block builders need to keep the full state. So say that you have all these balances and all these contracts that you're in. You could have your own local copy of just David's stuff or just Justin's stuff, but you don't impose that cost on everyone. And so that means that like, yeah, running a node, you know that you're never going to need like a terabyte of RAM or a terabyte or an ever growing amount of storage.

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