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by casi 1921 days ago
Full nodes are around 500GB, so they do fill up faster than bitcoin does. Archive nodes are bigger, but you can get everything in an archive node from a full node as it contains all the proofs. There are other data pruning techniques, and lots of work being done on light clients for eth2 (so you could connect via a light client running inside an app on your phone, rather than the app connecting to infura/alchemy).

Though contrary to what people think about this being a weakness for ethereum, there are still ~10000 nodes running, so pretty close to the amount bitcoin has.

Its an area under active research though.