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The minimum space in storage that can be modified is 32 bytes, an storage slot.
There are some possible optimizations, structs will pack its fields to save space, short strings are stored in a single storage slot.
Unless you know what you are doing I won't recommend using bytes32 for everything.
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This is second-hand information and speculation. I tried to reach out to people who did the original event.
Logs were intended to be used as a proof for third party systems that something happened in a blockchain. Now logs are used by bridges between different blockchains for this purpose.
Logs were intended to be purgeable i.e. full nodes have logged only ...
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Events use one of the LOG operations. The output of LOG operations is not accessible from smart contracts by design - it allows clients to avoid storing event/log data as an optimization and as a result the LOG operation has a low gas cost reflecting the reduced hardware cost. In other words, SSTORE is expensive because it provides a guarantee that smart ...
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But I didn't find a mention to why is that,
because first: you don't need that in a contract, and event is a message from the inside to the outside, why would a contract need to access events of other contracts? Only for some weird use case. Second, you would spend a lot of Gas and your transaction wouldn't fit inside a block.
if it's cheaper to store data ...
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I opened chaindata folder, there are lots of files like:
000197.ldb 044223.ldb 058455.ldb 072099.ldb 074159.ldb 078064.ldb
000198.ldb 044234.ldb 058457.ldb 072101.ldb 074161.ldb 078065.ldb
000199.ldb 044245.ldb 058463.ldb 072102.ldb 074162.ldb 078066.ldb
000200.ldb 044253.ldb 058465.ldb 072103.ldb 074163.ldb 078067.ldb
000201.ldb 044264....
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the default for Linux is $HOME/.ethereum
user@host :~/.ethereum$ cd $HOME/.ethereum
user@host :~/.ethereum$ ls
blocks database details geth geth.ipc history keystore network.rlp protocol state
user@host :~/.ethereum$
you can change this with --datadir parameter
when you sync the blocks are downloaded in about a few hours, but what takes a lot to ...
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