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From: Ricardo Filipe <ricardojdfilipe@gmail.com>
To: Brian Hoffman <brianchoffman@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:54:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALC81COfHg-xcwOPB2qGuF494KCwWNL3H7UrRB-uhL4wEdkOJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADm4BB8y=k_f7CG3tyX6ruWF0w3+hU2Szv7ajLp1x7KhS56GA@mail.gmail.com>

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 :)
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-10 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-10 11:37 [Bitcoin-development] Chain pruning Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 11:57 ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 12:10   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-10 14:19     ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 16:23       ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:28         ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 16:47           ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:54             ` Ricardo Filipe [this message]
2014-04-10 16:56               ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 16:59             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 17:06               ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-10 18:19               ` Paul Rabahy
2014-04-10 18:32                 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 20:12                   ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-10 20:29                     ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 19:36                 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-10 21:34               ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-10 22:15                 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-10 22:24                   ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-10 22:33                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-10 16:52           ` Ricardo Filipe

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