Hey chaskin, really appreciated how easy it is to follow, despite tackling an advanced topic. I have one question: you mentioned that some Ethereum researchers don't think that running a stateless node on a phone is practical quite yet. Do you know what are their arguments?
Thanks, glad you found it easy to follow! Good question - some researchers think that phones may not have the processing power or bandwidth needed. It's currently debated in the research community
Interesting, IIRC, you can run an Ethereum node on a 25 MBit/s Internet, so that could be done on a phone if you are in the big city. The processing power & RAM might be a bigger challenge. Maybe with advancements in AI, we'd see more powerful phones as it'd make sense to compute these things locally instead of sending all our private data to ChatGPT.