It is definitely possible to run a lightning node using a pruned backend. The official implementation doesn't "support" it, but that is only because some additi

It is definitely possible to run a lightning node using a pruned backend. The official implementation doesn't "support" it, but that is only because some additional thinking is required on the end user's part. It is really just a matter of implementing the code to instruct the backend to get the pruned, but still needed by lnd, transactions - and the work is happening: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5154 https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5154