Good morning Segue,
Please consider creating an implementation of this idea for bitcoind and share
it on bitcoin-dev. Then please make a pull request on
github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin for this.
Regards,
ZmnSCPxj
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On March 27, 2018 11:26 AM, Segue <[email protected]> wrote:
> Developers,
>
> On THIS note and slightly off-topic but relevant, why can't chunks of
> blockchain peel off the backend periodically and be archived, say on minimum
> of 150 computers across 7 continents?
>
> It seems crazy to continue adding on to an increasingly long chain to
> infinity if the old chapters (i.e. more than, say, 2 years old) could be
> stored in an evenly distributed manner across the planet. The same 150
> computers would not need to store every chapter either, just the index would
> need to be widely distributed in order to reconnect with a chapter if needed.
>
> Then maybe it is no longer a limitation in the future for people like Yubin.
>
> Segue
>
> On 3/26/18 6:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:56:05 +0100
>> From: Federico Tenga
>> [<[email protected]>](mailto:[email protected])
>> To: Yubin Ruan
>> [<[email protected]>](mailto:[email protected])
>> Cc:
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Lightning-dev] Can I try Lightning without running a
>> fully-fledged bitcoin block chain?
>> Message-ID:
>> [<CAP=-fx4aptkw-x08kq_+y7beh-ebgfpmscgqdbrzn0fh-nn...@mail.gmail.com>](mailto:CAP=-fx4aptkw-x08kq_+y7beh-ebgfpmscgqdbrzn0fh-nn...@mail.gmail.com)
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>>
>> You can try pruning, you will still have to validate the whole chain so it
>> takes time, but you won't need to store all the blockchain on your disk.
>>
>> On 17 March 2018 at 10:02, Yubin Ruan
>> [<[email protected]>](mailto:[email protected])
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just don't have so much space for a storing the whole blockchain on my
>>> laptop.
>>>
>>> Yubin
>>>
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