Quote from: Abdussamad on May 02, 2017, 03:43:50 PM

Quote from: DannyHamilton on May 02, 2017, 01:56:24 PM

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.

Maybe you can offer such a download? You should sign it with your PGP key and upload it somewhere.

But IMO it would just be easier for people to use an SPV wallet.

I'm sure I could do an SPV wallet like Multibit etc. At the moment I have a lottery USB stick running on a solopool and wouldn't mind for fun/redundancy having the full blockchain local as a fallback and solo completely local except network connection. I'm definetely a hobbyist and such a long time away.