Questions tagged [pruning]

Ability to avoid storing unnecessary data about prior transactions. For example one could use pruning to disable storing older transaction signatures on disk once they are verified. Archive nodes could be used to store the signatures disabled in the pruning branch.

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Pruning the Monero blockchain, a number question

According to this web https://web.getmonero.org/2019/02/01/pruning.html Why only 2/3 of the blockchain data can be pruned? 1/3 of the blockchain cannot be pruned. This pruning is not as efficient as bitcoin because in bitcoin the UTXO set is just…
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