Not exactly. You can prune txs if you don&#x27;t need to keep them for archiving purposes. But you have to validate the whole blocks to verify your own payments. You cannot selectively validate portions of blocks (&quot;shard blockchain&quot;) and still have perfect proofs of validity of payments to you.<p>If every block was capped at 100 Gb and there were miners creating such blocks, then only a handful of companies would be able to validate the blockchain and therefore mine and receive payments. That would reduce censorship-resistance and make the system less decentralized.