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Isn't the full block chain required? When your by client connects to peers, I thought it needed the full chain for verification?
by geuis 16y ago
Isn't the full block chain required? When your by client connects to peers, I thought it needed the full chain for verification?
- nas 16y agoI'm not sure but a Merkle tree is used so that the amount of data downloaded by a pure client is much smaller than what a full bitcoin node needs to download. This Java implementation would be well suited to an Android phone.