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SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD)

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The Differences Between Archival and Full Nodes

In the future, we would want to support light clients as well. And for that, we would have to adjust our UTXL set commitment a bit. Currently, we are using UTXL, and UTXL cannot prove completeness. But that is definitely doable. Right? So let's just summarize those different things so people are clear. The archival node means your node has downloaded all of Bitcoin's blocks and retains all of those blocks. It has them in memory or in the hard drive somewhere, so it can call them as it needs. Then the next level is a full node that once had all the blocks, but has now pruned away the old ones. That would be

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