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Re: Can I just run a pruned node without downloading historical data?
by
LoyceV
on 07/10/2021, 14:22:50 UTC
The only implementation I am aware of is this: Bitcoin Core pruned blockchain: download it here! (DON'T DO THIS!) It is no longer being maintained, though.
This doesn't include a UTXO list. I'm not even sure if a pruned node does that nowadays. I'd like the feature though: that would allow to load an old wallet.dat into a pruned node.

That triggers me a lot. Feels like the developers forcing me to do a lot of extra work.
It's part of the "verify, don't trust" mantra. As long as you're not limited on data, any half decent computer should be able to download and prune Bitcoin Core in about a day. If you have enough RAM you could even fit it on a RAM drive to beat SSD speed.