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Ever since headers-first sync was merged (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4468 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4468), the entire blockchain down
by fanquake 11y ago
Ever since headers-first sync was merged (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4468 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4468), the entire blockchain download & verification process can take as little as 3-4 hours.
In regards to the size of the blockchain, you might be interested in the recently merged Autoprune functionality (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5863 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5863), which deletes block and undo files to keep the total space used by those files below a certain threshold.
- makomk 11y agoLast time I looked you could only use autoprune if you completely disabled the wallet functionality, so it was useless to anyone that wanted to use Bitcoin Core as a wallet (and it probably couldn't act as a backend to any of the lightweight wallets either). I think it's basically only of use to miners in its current state.
- fanquake 11y agoWallet functionality has been re-enabled to work with autoprune, but it won't make it into the 0.11 release. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6057 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6057