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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Can I just run a pruned node without downloading historical data?
by
Beetkoin
on 07/10/2021, 10:02:13 UTC
Ok, so currently the only two options for running a full node are Unpruned and Pruned.

Unpruned costs 350GB. Pruned requires trusting third parties for historical data.

I am proposing a "partially pruned" full node.

Basically, a Pruned full node plus all currently non-zero UTXO.

This can save disk space, plus not having to trust third parties for historical data.

The list of all non-zero UTXO can be constructed from an Unpruned full node. Or it can be downloaded from somewhere.