Of Data Availability & Danksharding
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Ethereum's Erasure Coding Proposal to Free Up Space on the Blockchain
The main challenge is that you cannot just ask validators to store more data. So basically increasing the block size without putting too much burden on the validators I would say that's the main technical difficulty. That's what then starting solving. You mentioned erasure coding and it sounds like that's a key piece of this technology that enables it to work. Maybe you could provide some more detail there. What is erasure coding? How does it work and how does it apply in this context? Sure, absolutely. We don't care so much about recovering from actually corruption of the data because that's taken care of by the signature but we do worry quite a lot about pieces of data simply missing
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