Ouch! Yeah that would def not fit my budget anytime soon.

And as the blockchain continues to grow. It just becomes more and more expensive, right?

Wonder if some sort of archival mechanism would be feasible to further reduce the overhead.

For instance, consensus decides to pick a block and someone offload everything to a slower more inexpesive storage medium instead of keeping so much in RAM.

Would something like that work. The last thing I would want to see is people start to shutdown or further restrict capabilities due to cost.

Hoping we can proactively address somehow.