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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed additional options for pruned nodes
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:16:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150512171640.GA32606@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0O5OxaX5g3u=dnCY6Lz_gK3QZgQEPNcWNVRD4JziwAmvg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:05:44AM -0700, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> A general assumption is that you will have a few archive nodes with the
> full blockchain, and a majority of nodes are pruned, able to serve only the
> tail of the chains.

Hmm?

Lots of people are tossing around ideas for partial archival nodes that
would store a subset of blocks, such that collectively the whole
blockchain would be available even if no one node had the entire chain.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-12 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CANJO25J1WRHtfQLVXUB2s_sjj39pTPWmixAcXNJ3t-5os8RPmQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-12 15:26 ` [Bitcoin-development] Proposed additional options for pruned nodes gabe appleton
2015-05-12 16:05   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-12 16:56     ` gabe appleton
2015-05-12 17:16     ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-05-12 18:23       ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-12 19:03         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-05-12 19:24           ` gabe appleton
2015-05-12 19:38             ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-12 19:43               ` gabe appleton
2015-05-12 21:30                 ` [Bitcoin-development] [Bulk] " gb
2015-05-12 20:02               ` [Bitcoin-development] " Gregory Maxwell
2015-05-12 20:10                 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-05-12 20:41                   ` gabe appleton
2015-05-12 20:47                   ` Gregory Maxwell
     [not found]               ` <CAFVoEQTdmCSRAy3u26q5oHdfvFEytZDBfQb_fs_qttK15fiRmg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <CAJHLa0OxxxiVd3JOp8SDvbF8dHj6KHdUNGb9L_GvTe93z3Z8mg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <CAJHLa0MYSpVBD4VE65LVbADb2daOvE=N83G8F_zDSHy3AQ5DAQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-12 21:17                     ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Adam Weiss
2015-05-12 22:00           ` [Bitcoin-development] " Tier Nolan
2015-05-12 22:09             ` gabe appleton
2015-05-13  5:19           ` Daniel Kraft
2015-05-13  9:34             ` Tier Nolan

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