Just wondering why xmr never copied bbr's way of reducing blockchain bloat.
A Monero fork called Aeon has pruning implemented by a Monero developer (smooth). If and when Monero wants to do something similar it can.
What hash functions AEON has ? BBR's wildkeccak is ca.3000 times faster than cryptonight, this is why pruning the key images is safer, when pruning implemented on cryptonight, the double spent attack would likely cause to stop or halt the network.
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