2026-01-18 07:28:14

Here's the core issue nobody talks about:

Race for speed comes with a brutal cost.

When chains prioritize throughput—churning out blocks faster and faster—they're essentially drowning in data they can't possibly maintain. The math doesn't work.

So what do they do? Aggressive pruning. Strip the historical records.

And with that goes years of verifiable transaction history—the kind of on-chain reputation and financial records that should be permanent.

Ten, fifteen, twenty years of data? Gone.

You're left with a chain that's fast on paper but functionally amnesic. No depth. No accountability trail.

Speed without history isn't scaling—it's just moving the bottleneck elsewhere.

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PerpetualLonger

· 5h ago

Bro, isn't this just talking about the false prosperity of some L1s... How fast is it? All the data has been deleted, how can I check on-chain history? I almost got caught because of this before. Luckily, I added to my Ethereum position in time and held firm. I believe one day it will break through and recover.

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Layer2Observer

· 6h ago

This is the pain point that no one dares to touch... Speed and data retention are essentially a pair of sworn enemies. Cutting off history to improve TPS is, in essence, deceiving oneself.

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AirdropBuffet

· 6h ago

Fast is fast, but this thing is like driving a sports car with no brakes; sooner or later, it'll crash. --- So your chain is like a patient with amnesia? What can you even check? --- Damn, deleting data after more than ten years? Isn't that cheating? --- Speed has increased, but what about history? This is just closing your eyes and stealing a bell. --- Ultimately, it's a matter of fish and bear paws; you can't have both. --- No wonder no one trusts these chains; their foundations are rotten. --- Switching to others doesn't mean the problem is solved? That's hilarious. --- Eternal ledger? Where the hell is eternity? It gets deleted as soon as you turn around. --- Brothers, don't be fooled by throughput; it's all about compromises behind the scenes. --- Decentralization has turned into selective amnesia, how ironic.

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OfflineValidator

· 6h ago

Uh, isn't this just talking about the awkward situation of some L1 chains... Fast ≠ truly decentralized, and deleting historical data is basically cheating.

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OnchainDetective

· 6h ago

This is exactly what I've been trying to say, speed freaks are just fooling themselves --- Cutting historical data to improve speed? Uh... isn't that cheating? --- Ten or twenty years of on-chain records mean nothing if they're gone, and yet you still dare to call yourselves decentralized? Laughable --- Pruning has been broken for a long time, but some people still keep jumping into that pit --- So those projects that boast about TPS are really just kicking the problem down the road --- Fast speed? What a joke. Chains without history are no different from centralized databases --- Remember, everyone, no history = no accountability, this is an ironclad rule --- See? That's why I never touch chains that heavily prune --- Decentralization demands your life? Do you have to trade history for TPS? --- Chain amnesia, a new term is coming soon

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AirdropJunkie

· 6h ago

Haha, so this is the truth of the so-called "fast chain"—deleting historical data to improve speed, hilarious. No kidding, speed and security can't be both achieved. I knew it. These projects cut corners just to make TPS numbers look good. If data is lost, how do they handle accountability? I just want to ask, if on-chain records from ten years ago are gone, is it still called a distributed ledger? Oh my, it seems I need to be more careful when choosing a chain. Chains that are as fast as ghosts should be watched carefully.

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