[superidiot1932]

Yes that is the idea, there already are successful blockchains such as arweave that functions like this.

[Dylan16807]

There's potential there. You only need to store part of the chain and there's an incentive to keep rare blocks.

But the mining is optimized for storing as big of a fraction of the chain as possible, so I worry that the future of it devolves into a few big nodes and everyone else dropping out.