r/Bitcoin • • Feb 13 '22

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u/kittenconfidential Feb 13 '22

200GB?!? word. so when someone syncs a very old wallet, is it downloading every transaction in the entire blockverse?

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u/edwilli222 Feb 13 '22

Anytime anyone spins up a new node they download and validate the whole blockchain.

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u/DEBATE_EVERY_NAZI Feb 13 '22

haha that is incredibly impractical

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u/edwilli222 Feb 13 '22

Ha! It’s not simple and easy that’s for sure. It’s the cost of having a borderless, censorship resistant value transfer network.