{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1dktdyz5xuuzugc00zyjr46zdqca2grcks4qyj0qz6ulms78ml2vqchk0xl","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1dktdyz5xuuzugc00zyjr46zdqca2grcks4qyj0qz6ulms78ml2vqchk0xl","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2017-08-16\n📝 Original message:I read about prune option right now, actually i didn't hear about it before.\nYes this option can save some disk space but afaik first (awful N-days\nlasting) synchronization still requires to download full database.\nMy approach also cuts database and replaces all old blocks (except say last\n6 blocks for security reason)\nwith series of blocks with rolled initial totals and optionally purged from\ntiny wallets crap (storing on six thousand current nodes and on the swarm\nof full wallets\n information that John have 100 satosi is too expensive for us and we may\nannually clear that balance as fee for miners or just delete).\n\nSo almost all nodes can hold only the rolled database (i can't estimate\ncompression ration of the rolled database now, i am not advanced user as\nyou can see).\n And only much less amount of archive nodes holds full expanded database.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2017-08-16 19:52 GMT+03:00 Nick ODell \u003cnickodell at gmail.com\u003e:\n\n\u003e What makes this approach better than the prune option of Bitcoin?\n\u003e\n\u003e On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Алексей Мутовкин via bitcoin-dev \u003c\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e Let me describe the possible improvement of the bitcoin blockchain\n\u003e\u003e database (BBD)  size in general terms.\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e We can implement new routine : annual split of the BBD. Reason is that\n\u003e\u003e 140gb full wallet unconvinience.\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e BBD splits in two parts :\n\u003e\u003e 1) old blocks before the date of split and\n\u003e\u003e 2) new blocks, starting from first technical block with all rolled totals\n\u003e\u003e on the date of split.\n\u003e\u003e     (also possible transfer of tiny totals due to their unprofitability\n\u003e\u003e to the miners, so we cut long tail of tiny holders)\n\u003e\u003e 3) old blocks packs into annual megablocks and stores in the side archive\n\u003e\u003e chain for some needs for FBI investigations or other goals.\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e Thanks for your attention,\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e Alexey Mutovkin\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20170816/b3e2dc85/attachment.html\u003e"}