Quote from: jwinterm on December 17, 2016, 08:25:13 PM

I think I asked a while ago and didn't get a response:

Can anyone explain the benefits of cryptonite mini blockchain scheme compared to just running a pruned node for Bitcoin or a clone?

To make it simple:
- Pruned node requires to download the whole blockchain for verification then prune it.
- To keep the blockchain more handy to download, you need the block limit to prevent it from exploding.
- With mini-blockchain no limit is needed, so it's already designed to handle a lot of transactions just like VISA and MasterCard.

edit:
Forgot to mention that:
- The more the blockchain size is, the harder it is to host a full node, the more centralized the coin becomes.

I'm not that big fan for Cryptonite itself, but I'm rather a fan with the concept of the mini-blockchain schema itself, and that's because there's a lot of things that can be improved in a new coin with mini-blockchain schema that virtually makes it the #1 coin in the community.