Do you know if Rocky is on the Steem blockchain?

I'm still listening to the interview and heard the part where he says:

"[Ethereum's] blockchain is so huge, if you were to start up a brand new node right now, it would never sync. They're adding more blocks to the blockchain faster than you could ever download their blockchain."

12min 15sec

That definitely can't be good. I wonder how many people are aware of this ...