lazy fetching of the monero blockchain

[milahu]

i assume that 90% of the blockchain are never used
because most transactions i see (event horizon) are only some weeks old
so the full monero blockchain of currently 90GB is mostly a waste of disk space

why no lazy fetching?
let me use a "shallow clone" of the blockchain
and only when a transaction requires deeper access to the blockchain
then fetch to the required depth
and maybe later delete the deep end of the chain to free disk space

[selsta]

I don't think this has a realistic chance of being implemented. It would require a lot of work regarding how this could be implemented in a secure way, and it would also increase load on the network. If someone does not have enough storage for a pruned blockchain it's best that they use a remote node.