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You need a full fat DB if you want to be able to accurately detect transactions more than 2 days old. You need to do it if you care about more than just the cur
by Canada 6y ago
You need a full fat DB if you want to be able to accurately detect transactions more than 2 days old. You need to do it if you care about more than just the current balance and don't want to rely on a centralized middleman such as etherscan.
- saurik 6y agoI don't understand what you mean by this; you do not need an archival node to either pull transaction receipts or to request transaction logs: you only need an archival node if you want access to all of the starting storage states of all past blocks, which you effectively never need (except for debugging). Notably: a "full node" is not an "archive node", and will not need more than the 400GB of space.