There is absolutely nothing wrong with pruning. If you're …
There is absolutely nothing wrong with pruning.
If you're worried about your data being pruned, then you're focused on the wrong issues.
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Please elaborate? Isn’t that data lost forever if every miner prunes it? So no longer accessible?
Gonna tag some random for a test @2407
No. If I keep a copy with the Merkle proof, it's still 100% verifiable.
Whaa? Is that just for monetary data? What about things like large files like videos and such? How could someone fetch streaming data if it doesn’t exist on anyones blockchain? Excuse my ignorance
All transactions are hashed in full into the Merkle tree, the root of which is in the block header, which is hashed in PoW. So yes, all transactions are verifiable.
Fetchable? Not necessarily. But a market will arise for that, with archival nodes.