Early Promises Massive Data Size Savings

The real issue has always been bandwidth. And it's your actual data connection and how much data you're sending back and forth to stay in sync with the network. Being able to access that kind of level of bandwidth, particularly if you're using some kind of privacy network like Tor, is greatly bandwidth constrained. So this would be massive. It would allow not only individuals running full nodes over Tor to download the chain state and stay up to date easier,. But it also lowers the barrier of entry to run a full node to areas with shitty internet connections. This will open up the potential universe of full node operators globally.