Yeah, well, BTCers are obsessed with full nodes (not miners) when those actually don't do that much. All they do is transmit mined blocks. If your node, ignores certain blocks. It's as if it's not the...
Your node is primarily useful to verify your transactions and to transmit your transactions.
If all you're doing is transacting on chain, there's not a ton of reason not to prune.
A lot of people think nodes are ballots. Those people are going to slam into reality in 1 month and 4 days.
Archival nodes are required for some applications though. And yes, they are more helpful in letting new nodes bootstrap.
Also, miners don't matter unless they're generating blocks.
If all you're doing is transacting on chain, there's not a ton of reason not to prune.
A lot of people think nodes are ballots. Those people are going to slam into reality in 1 month and 4 days.
Archival nodes are required for some applications though. And yes, they are more helpful in letting new nodes bootstrap.
Also, miners don't matter unless they're generating blocks.
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