Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning

[Brian Hoffman <brianchoffman@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1943 bytes --]

Okay...will let myself out now ;P


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Ricardo Filipe
<ricardojdfilipe@gmail.com>wrote:

> that's what blockchain pruning is all about :)
>
> 2014-04-10 17:47 GMT+01:00 Brian Hoffman <brianchoffman@gmail.com>:
> > Looks like only about ~30% disk space savings so I see your point. Is
> there
> > a critical reason why blocks couldn't be formed into "superblocks" that
> are
> > chained together and nodes could serve a specific superblock, which
> could be
> > pieced together from different nodes to get the full blockchain? This
> would
> > allow participants with limited resources to serve full portions of the
> > blockchain rather than limited pieces of the entire blockchain.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Suggestions always welcome!
> >>
> >> The main problem with this is that the block chain is mostly random
> bytes
> >> (hashes, keys) so it doesn't compress that well. It compresses a bit,
> but
> >> not enough to change the fundamental physics.
> >>
> >> However, that does not mean the entire chain has to be stored on
> expensive
> >> rotating platters. I've suggested that in some star trek future where
> the
> >> chain really is gigantic, it could be stored on tape and spooled off at
> high
> >> speed. Literally a direct DMA from tape drive to NIC. But we're not
> there
> >> yet :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Put Bad Developers to Shame
> > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration
> > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment
> > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.
> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bitcoin-development mailing list
> > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
> >
>

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2833 bytes --]