# Ethereum Full Sync data size is growing much slower since Dencun

Source: https://imagedelivery.net/C5bPuWCkK_P2Rg7LwXEwPQ/453a06cb-2f9f-4fbf-a9a7-46ed246cca00/public
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Full-Sync-data-size-is-growing-much-slower-since-Dencun?index=0x67e2c68d1b32cefcf1450a8afa74ec75905993f1a50e2a91bc85a333205a1ee76b9effea
Submitted by tim on 2025-03-25 UTC, 6 upvotes, 5 comments

## Comments

**tim**: This is the image that really red-pilled me against The Purge part of the Ethereum roadmap.

I don't understand anymore why we still have to expire all state and remove history.

This image shows that to sync a full node is now becoming more accessible and less costly in terms of storage space, most likely because with blobs we're discarding a lot of data.

So why go so far as to expire state and history on the L1?

Source of image: https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_chain_full_sync_data_size

**simplifiedprivacy.eth**: Kiwi News is making a huge mistake by telling people to "only submit Ethereum" stuff.  You're giving the middle finger to Bitcoin, Monero, Solana, and the bulk of the population... for what purpose?

Also when I paid for an NFT pass, I was not told "Eth only", I was told this is a decentralized hacker news.  Even centralised hacker news doesn't force one topic only.

**tim**: You‘re free to run your own version of this site. Nobody is stopping you

**simplifiedprivacy.eth**: That's an interesting proposition, does it link by default with the others?  If so, how do you even enforce rules of any kind?

**tim**: Yeah it does link with others. To enforce rules there is a Google Spreadsheet that could be forked to moderate alone