Nuh on Nostr: All blockchain scalability solutions do is to compress history to almost nothing, ...
All blockchain scalability solutions do is to compress history to almost nothing, then post the state diff to the chain every now and then.
Well, that means the l2 state can only increase in size by how much state diff you can fit on the blocks of l1.
So you can't onboard a million user in a single state diff, nor can you update the accounts of millions of users in a single state diff.
The account model is absolutely impossible to scale. Unless you bait and switch, using the l1 chain for timestamping and then dump the actual state on another layer.
But now we are back to the Interplanetary filesystem bullshit.
In practice only you and few others are incentivezed to store your state... but now congratulations you just invented client side validation.
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