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You don't need the full blockchain to become a miner, you just need a database of all unspent transaction outputs. The last time I checked said database was onl
by desdiv 12y ago
You don't need the full blockchain to become a miner, you just need a database of all unspent transaction outputs. The last time I checked said database was only a couple hundred MB.
As for people who do need the full blockchain in the future scenario you describe, they could always pay someone to sneakernet it to them.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> As for people who do need the full blockchain in the future scenario you describe, they could always pay someone to sneakernet it to them. I just imagined an armed convoy protecting a truck loaded with hard drives.
- vanattab 12y agoI just imagined and army of Converse wearing hipsters loaded with hard drives.
- sp332 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jrHXu7M-U68#t=85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jr...
- uptown 12y agoWhich would make no sense. The whole idea of a distributed ledger is that there's not one authoritative copy. Stealing those drives would yield nothing because it wouldn't correlate to the rest of the copies in existence.
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- gwern 12y agoImagine instead one armed courier with a briefcase containing a key, and a bunch of hard drives with signed files mailed via USPS. :)