> On 3/17/18, someone posted on the Lightning-dev list, "Can I try > Lightning without running a fully-fledged bitcoin block chain? (Yubin > Ruan)." The inquirer was asking because he didn't have much space to > store the entire blockchain on his laptop. > > I replied: > > "Developers, > > On THIS note and slightly off-topic but relevant, why can't chunks of > blockchain peel off the backend periodically and be archived, say on > minimum of 150 computers across 7 continents? > > It seems crazy to continue adding on to an increasingly long chain to > infinity if the old chapters (i.e. more than, say, 2 years old) could be > stored in an evenly distributed manner across the planet. The same 150 > computers would not need to store every chapter either, just the index > would need to be widely distributed in order to reconnect with a chapter > if needed. Then maybe it is no longer a limitation in the future for > people like Yubin. " > > It was suggested by a couple of lightning developers that I post this > idea on the bitcoin-dev list. So, here I post :). >
You can already use the "prune" flag to get a snapshot of the blockchain but it is incompatible with "txindex" and "rescan" so maybe that is and issue for lightning nodes? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev