From the initial post " The situation would likely become problematic quickly if bitcoin-core were to ship with the defaults set to a pruned node."
Sorry to be straight, I read the (painful) thread below, and most
of what is in there is inept, wrong, obsolete... or biased, cf the
first sentence above, if the idea is to invent a workaround to the
fact that pruning might/will become the default or might/will be
set by the users as the default so full nodes might/will disappear
then just say it clearly instead of proposing this kind of
non-solution as a solution to secure the blockchain
I can't believe this is serious, people now are supposed to prune
but will be forced to host a part of the blockchain, how do you
expect this to work, why people would do this? Knowing that to
start pruning they need a full node, then since we are there, why
not continuing with a full node... but indeed, why should they
continue with a full node, and therefore why should they accept to
host a part of the blockchain if they decline the first proposal?
Each node would be recommended to store the last few days worth anyway.The suggestion in that thread were for a way to compactly indicate which blocks a node has. Each node would then store a sub-set of all the blocks. You just download the blocks you want from the node that has them.You meet most of these rules, though you do have to download blocks from multiple peers.This has been discussed before.including a list of nice to have features by Maxwell
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/008101.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/008110.html
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