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I have read about DApp "decentralized applications" & Blockchain but still I am unable to understand how multiple nodes can keep whole history of all transactions forever?

After some time when there will be lot of transactions, will not it slow down the whole system & create following problems?

  • Huge Calculation & Processing Requirements
  • Huge Storage Requirements

What is the current strategy to handle these challenges in future?

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your question is tied to the scalability issue, at the moment we don't have these problems but in the future we will.

1- a big amount of transaction doesn't mean necessarily huge calculation and processing because the mining process doesn't depend on the transaction quantity but in the network difficulty.However as you said this growth will impact the network latency. But the system is designed currently for a specific throughput to increase it we need to find out an efficient scalability solution, like segwit for the Bitcoin.

2-currently the size increases 1GB-2GB per month for about 4 tps. if the transaction volume increases (currently we are at 40% of block capacity utilization) the situation will change and we will face a storage problem (maybe in a far future). the storage technology evolve in time and we may see the cost's drop of the helium disks or even biometric storage(for a far future). Besides, if the cost of storing the blockchain becomes so expansive this may lead to a centralization problem,as vitalik points out:

excessive size leads to more centralization which leads to more fees due to monopoly pricing

but there is some solutions trying to deal with the scalability issue like the sharding

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