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Re: Can I just run a pruned node without downloading historical data?
by
LoyceV
on 14/10/2021, 08:54:56 UTC
Theoretically... if you have a (trusted) "friend" that has a full unpruned node, one can simply copy the blocks/chainstate and drop them into a new node installation and "voilà", you have your full node without having to download anything, you just have to trust your "friend".
Dont do this.
You can just do a full reindex, right? If your own Bitcoin Core installation verifies all the blocks you copied from your friend, you don't need to trust him anymore.
Code:
Usage:  bitcoin-qt [command-line options]                     

Options:

  -reindex
       Rebuild chain state and block index from the blk*.dat files on disk
I expect this to take a day, so I don't want to test the command.