of course it is, not everyone can run a full archival node. Making it easier for more people to run nodes -> more decentralized. Pruned nodes (aka Full nodes) are still fully validating, they just don’t store all the blocks.
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it doesn’t lower the requirements, you still have to download and validate every block before you delete.
of course it does, it reduces the storage requirement, the most important requirement. Not everyone has terabytes of storage to spare on their device.
it doesnt though, you still have to download the whole thing before you can prune. You still need terabytes of storage to start a bitcoin node. Once its download the requirements change. But to join the network, its the same hardware requiremnent for IBD w/ Prune or IBD w/o prune
this is false. you do not need terabytes of storage on a pruned node. you need the same amount of network *bandwidth*, sure, but pruned nodes prune as they are downloading. They only keep as much as they need to rollback incase of a reorg.
nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpr9mhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5q3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqzcg6ta is correct. Pruned nodes can work with all kinds of sub-1TB disk sizes.
We even sell refurbished pruned nodes that have only a 256 GB SSD that work quite well.
Storage is not the most important requirement, bandwidth has always been the primary concern. Real decentralization depends on the number of full nodes. If we are not lowering the barrier to full node operation then we are not improving decentralization.
Hmm I'm not sure I agree here. Yes in places with shitty Internet bandwidth is more of a concern, but I the barrier to entry(device cost) doesn't increase with bandwidth, but it does with storage.
I also don't think most people are turned away by either of these constraints. I think most people don't care or transact enough to bother running a node.
storage has always been the main concern, jeff is just completely wrong here. you have to download the whole chain regardless of pruned or unpruned.
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