Vitalik proposes key goals for the Purge phase of Ethereum's future development

Golden Finance reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published the latest article "The Future Development of Ethereum Protocol (Part 5): The Purge". The article stated that one of the challenges facing Ethereum is that by default, the expansion and complexity of any blockchain protocol will grow over time. This happens in two places: historical data and protocol features. In order for Ethereum to be sustainable in the long run, strong counter-pressure needs to be exerted on these two trends to reduce complexity and bloat over time. But at the same time, one of the great features of blockchain needs to be preserved: permanence. The key goal of The Purge is to reduce client storage requirements by reducing or eliminating the need for each node to permanently store all historical records, and may even eventually declare; reduce protocol complexity by eliminating unnecessary functions.