Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum

Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/14/l1scaling.html

So for solo stakers a 10x gas limit increase would mean 30TB+ per month in terms of data usage?

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So what would the Data Usage be then roughly?

Nice, 4TB actually does sound quite manageable for an average home ISP!

Worst case if they ask I can just say I've been streaming a bunch of 4k movies or something.

Theoretical optimum, all assuming 10x gas limit and 10x status quo blobs:

* Blocks without blobs: 800 kB per 12 sec = 163 GB per month
* Blobs: 8 samples * 2 kB per sample * 30 blobs per 12 sec = 100 GB per month
* Witnesses (assume ZKPs; estimate): (20000 reads * 64 bytes + 100 kB proof) per 12 sec = 281 GB per month

On top of that, p2p overhead inefficiencies. Perhaps 10x

So, about 4 TB per month naively, but this could be optimized down quite a bit