re: Official CryptoTalk Thread

That's a good thing. People bitch that ETH is slow and expensive. This increases transactions per block and thus lowers gas fees as less people are competing for block space. It can also allow for larger rewards for validators.

It conceptually has some impacts on sync speed and state size, but that's only if you assume you are using old hardware. The increase in block fees should scale upwards as hardware costs to run a node or validator come down. For example, let's say a 1TB SATA SSD cost $300 in 2020, but now you can get a 2TB PCIe SSD for $300 (making numbers up). It's the same cost now as it was then, but you can run a much beefier node that can easily handle the bigger state size and sync.