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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @davidw 16 Mar 2023
For anyone that has had to do an intiitial block download recently, certainly could be useful and help speed things up.
Mixed feelings however on this getting misused by being made ‘default on’ by future devs.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 16 Mar 2023
When I did my initial block download, I was of course upset about it taking a week to download...but at the same time I was excited to think about the history of that entire ledger and proud to become a full archival node.
We have to be careful about this new thing for sure. We need some mechanism for nodes that use this method to receive some kind of warning from peers. Maybe peers can create a hash of their own utxo set and communicate this hash with the baby node and warn the user if the hashes don't match from the peers they communicate with.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 16 Mar 2023
Bitcoin QT is not a node? It's a frontend?
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3 sats \ 2 replies \ @kristapsk 16 Mar 2023
It's currently single process, containing all three - full node, wallet and Qt GUI.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 16 Mar 2023
Ah okay. Didn't know that. But it's running Bitcoin Core inside, right?
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 16 Mar 2023
Yes, there are two executables you can run for Bitcoin Core - bitcoind, which contains only node and wallet, and bitcoin-qt, which contains node, wallet and GUI.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 16 Mar 2023
This is gonna be controversial....
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 16 Mar 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @christian_gaugele 20 May 2023 freebie
Perfect