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Vitor Pamplona · 32w
Question to the Bitcoin wizards out there. Why do I need to sync the entire Bitcoin blockchain if all I want is to create a new wallet and receive in that wallet? Can't the deamon be syncing in the ba...
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You don't have to sync the entire Bitcoin blockchain. You can run a pruned node which means you download just the last xxxx blocks. Normally okay but you can get issues when you run a deeper wallet. Also if you want to restore an older wallet with a pruned node it will. not find any transactions.
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Vitor Pamplona · 32w
Yeah, but I can't run a pruned node without creating a wallet first to give it config to track. And I can't create a wallet if I don't have it fully sync. Or I have to prune to nothing, let it sync, create a wallet, erase the DB and sync again with that wallet in the config files. Also, I don't eve...
exist270 · 32w
Pruning simply tosses the oldest #Bitcoin blocks once you're synced, but you actually DO still have to download the entire #BTC blockchain to verify all blocks before it can toss the old ones. 🤙