Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bootstrapping full nodes post-pruning

2012-06-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: I remember some people, Greg in particular, who were not a fan of approach (2) at all, though it has the benefit of speeding startup for new users as there's no indexing overhead. I'm not a fan of anything which introduces

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bootstrapping full nodes post-pruning

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Hearn
Actual BDB files are absolutely not deterministic. Nor is the raw blockchain itself currently, because blocks aren't always added in the same order (plus they get orphans in them) That's true. Though if you prune up to the last checkpoint, orphans before that point can be safely thrown away.