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Bitcoin prune node still downloads the full blockchain, just does not store all of it. It trusts the local file system, not other nodes.

• TD-Linux 9y ago
  Yeah that's what I meant, I updated my comment to be clearer.
• 5chdn 9y ago
  But a pruned bitcoin node does not hold the full blockchain for other nodes to download. A pruned Ethereum node, however, does.