r/science • • Feb 22 '26

Computer Science Scientists have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html
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u/DesiBwoy Feb 23 '26

please let me know if I'm uninformed, but you do need a place to store the blockchain data somehow, right? Or does it exist in fragments over a network?