Quote from: solex on February 20, 2015, 10:14:20 PM

Quote from: danielpbarron on February 20, 2015, 09:34:57 PM

It's never before been the case that in order to use a money, I'd need to have a copy of every previous transaction.

Keeping a copy of every transaction is a temporary early state of Bitcoin, which looks like it will be 2009-15. After that most full nodes will be able to have a pruned version of the blockchain: a UTXO database, a full set of block headers, and a random, but complete, segment of the blockchain which can be 1%, 5%, 10%, whatever the full node owner decides.

A bootstrapping node will either be able to obtain the full blockchain from one the many archive nodes, which still have it, or build it from the segments held by numerous other nodes.

Constraining Bitcoin usage permanently because of a temporary reason is short-sighted and unnecessary.

Obviously I can't stop you from cutting your own legs off, but I will not follow suit.

The abomination you have described may coincidentally be compatible with my full node, but I wouldn't count on it, and I wouldn't call it bitcoin.