Maybe it is not a question of the maturity of the implementation but that of the person making presumptions of it.
I consider a fully pruned blockchain being equivalent to the UTXO. Block that hold no more unspent transaction are reduced to a header. There is however no harm if more retained. Tamas Blummer http://bitsofproof.com On 07.04.2014, at 21:02, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Tamas Blummer <ta...@bitsofproof.com> wrote: >> Once a single transaction in pruned in a block, the block is no longer >> eligible to be served to other nodes. >> Which transactions are pruned can be rather custom e.g. even depending on >> the wallet(s) of the node, >> therefore I guess it is more handy to return some bitmap of pruned/full >> blocks than ranges. > > This isn't at all how pruning works in Bitcoin-QT (nor is it how I > expect pruning to work for any mature implementation). Pruning can > work happily on a whole block at a time basis regardless if all the > transactions in it are spent or not. >
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