A local-node-favoring delta to the scaling roadmap

The article proposes adjusting Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap so that people can keep running personal full nodes even as the gas limit grows, arguing that a local node gives trustless, private, censorship-resistant chain access beyond what ZK-EVMs and PIR alone provide. It cites three reasons: fully trustless cryptographic solutions like 1-server PIR will stay expensive, metadata about IP addresses and request patterns reveals user information, and a market dominated by a few RPC providers faces pressure to censor, with many already excluding entire countries. Its short-term priorities include a full rollout of EIP-4444 so nodes store only about 36 days of history, distributed erasure-coded history storage, and higher gas costs for creating new state. Its main new idea is a partially stateless node that keeps a user-configured subset of state, with the configuration possibly managed by an onchain contract.