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Pruning is/will be a client feature, so your data would never be pruned out of existence, it's simply up to clients whether or not they want to keep it around.
by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Pruning is/will be a client feature, so your data would never be pruned out of existence, it's simply up to clients whether or not they want to keep it around.
- ryanlol 11y agoWhat's not a client feature? It'll be pretty annoying when you've only got a couple of custom clients hosting your version of the 10TB blockchain.
- adrianmacneil 11y agoWell, you can't prune the blockchain until you have fully downloaded and verified it anyway. So if no clients are hosting the full, complete blockchain then you won't be able to sync at all, which will be bad for everyone. You could theoretically get around this by starting sync from a known (hard coded) recent block + UXTO set, but at that point you are losing _all_ transaction history, not just your OP_RETURNs. So, I don't think OP_RETURN data added to the blockchain today will be going anywhere fast.