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Topic: Trimming the blockchain (Read 1021 times)

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There is more to Bitcoin than bitcoins.
May 07, 2013, 04:08:10 AM
#4
Search for pruning.
sr. member
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May 05, 2013, 10:20:22 PM
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May 05, 2013, 06:43:31 PM
#1
The blockchain contains far more information than is required to operate a wallet. Nobody is interrested in transactions that happend years ago so that information is kinda useless to the average user. A trusted summary of all important/active balances after the n-th block seems sufficient to me to work with all new blocks after than n-th.

I doubt that this is a new idea, but otherwise I haven't stumbled uppon that yet ...
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