Quote from: theymos on February 10, 2016, 03:14:02 PM

Quote from: David Rabahy on February 10, 2016, 02:57:27 PM

If everyone ran in pruned mode then would that be a problem? How would a new node catch up from the beginning? I'm sure it's just that I am missing the obvious point. Sorry to be such a dummy.

Maybe the idea is at least a few nodes will always keep the full history? I am willing to if that helps.

In the future Core will let you choose to "donate x GB to the network", and then you'll store a random range of historical blocks. Then nodes doing an initial sync will have to search out nodes that have the blocks they want from among these nodes storing chunks of the historical chain. It's a bit like how BitTorrent works.

This could be the greatest plus thing we need and then I would be more than happy in contributing again.
When you talk about future, how far is this future? thanks Wink