Torrents and EIP-4444

The article describes a method for distributing pre-merge Ethereum history via torrent as one possible way to meet EIP-4444, which aims to limit the historical data Ethereum nodes must store. The torrent was built from era files exported with geth v1.14.3 for blocks 0 to 15537393, the merge block height, and the export was verified with era verify, which reported 1896 files verified in 5h21m49s. The resulting torrent is 427GB, uses 64MB chunks, and includes a mix of http, https and udp trackers. The article lists tradeoffs, including that peers cannot be incentivized or guaranteed to serve the data and that nodes would need to seed what they download.