Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
According to statement by gmaxwell, Core 'nodes' do not verify back to the genesis block, relying instead upon checkpoints. I deigned to just accept his assertion on this point - it may be incorrect.
They stopped adding new checkpoints 5 years ago, but yes, the old checkpoints are still there.
You can ignore the checkpoints by starting Core with "-nocheckpoints".
I didn't know this, thx. IOU +sM
