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by xur17 2359 days ago
> A pruned observer node could run with just a few hundred dollars of hard drives even at Visa scale!

Each node would need to download 1.4 TB of data per day (500TB / 365) to keep up, and the UTXO set would presumably expand dramatically with a volume increase of that magnitude, making it impracticable to store even a pruned state on a consumer hard drive.