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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Compressed version of blockchain for new users?
by
DannyHamilton
on 02/05/2017, 13:56:24 UTC
It might be an interesting service to provide a pre-pruned data directory for those that want to use Bitcoin Core but don't want to use up the necessary bandwidth to synchronize from the beginning.

Doing so would probably open up significant attack vectors since the user would need to trust that they were getting a valid blockchain, UTXO, and config file, but if a reliable trustworthy source could be found it would significantly speed up the process and reduce the bandwidth of starting up Bitcoin Core as a wallet.