For questions about Bitcoin Core's pruning feature.
Questions tagged [pruning]
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What happens if you set prune= to a value between 0 and 550?
Today I saw a question about what Bitcoin Core would do if you set prune=1. The documentation on bitcoin.org states:
A value of 0 disables pruning. The minimal value above 0 is 550.
Apparently, the log upon setting prune=1 states:
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Can you check if a node is pruning?
Is it possible to check if a specific node is running the full blockchain or a pruned one?
Also if you can, is it possible to check exactly how many (or roughly) how many blocks they are distributing.
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Blockchain pruning and chainstate
In order to reduce the size of the blockchain, we can use pruning with the bitcoin core client. The description of the option says:
Reduce storage requirements by pruning (deleting) old blocks. This
mode disables wallet support and is…
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How to determine if a remote node prunes?
Is there a way to determine if a remote full-node prunes its blocks (i.e., if it doesn't store the entire Bitcoin blockchain)?
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Prune full node recovery after 1 month of inactivity
Alice is running a prune full node (around 7GB) of storage for prune node. It was working fine
Due to power outrages, Alice prune full node was shutdown for 1 month.
can this full prune node recover and be operational just by downloading those…
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How can I prune my Bitcoin Core correctly? The other way did not work for me. Have I done any unnoticed mistake?
Saving the entire blockchain in my computer is taking mi a lot of space. I looked in this forum for a solution and I saw that there was an option to prune the node and save a lot of space.
I followed the instructions, I went to the Bitcoin data…
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Increase the fee for hanged transaction
So I made the transfer from my wallet’ address to other wallet. I use Bitcoin Core 0.14.2. And I read "Would replace by fee increase the fee on my transaction?"
I apologize, was mistaken and appointed the small commission. Transaction hangs as…
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