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Re: Can I just run a pruned node without downloading historical data?
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ETFbitcoin
on 08/10/2021, 10:59:10 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.

chainstate directory is used to store UTXO list, where pruned node also have such directory to perform full verification. But IIRC chainstate doesn't keep whole transaction, so that's why you can't load different wallet.dat without redownload whole blockchain again.