Correction: the receipt storm's total was impossible
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My March post about Ethereum's December receipt storm contained a dead giveaway. It said all tracked receipt history weighed 55.5 GB, then put December alone at 61.4 GB. One month cannot be larger than all history. I should have stopped there.
The underlying xatu-cbt receipt models were later repaired and re-backfilled. With the same fixed dates, December now comes to 42.19 GB of logical receipt RLP, not 61.4 GB. The model sums to 1.315 TB from August 8, 2015 through March 7, 2026, not 55.5 GB, and neither number is a measurement of node disk usage.