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I am building a web app that implements bitcoin payments. My server has limited resources, and I don’t want to fill up it’s data with the ENTIRE blockchain (takes up too much space). So I enabled pruning on bitcoind, and ran: bitcoind -daemon -txindex I got the error: Error: Prune mode is incompatible with -txindex.Read more

I set up my first bitcoin node and I’m a little confused with it. So, I am trying to setup a pruned node – which from my understanding is very useful if you just need your application to verify transaction/read blocks/lookup TXIDs. I added: prune=550 to my bitcoin.conf, and started up daemon again. However, IRead more

According to Jameson Lopp (https://www.coindesk.com/spv-support-billion-bitcoin-users-sizing-scaling-claim/), allowing pruned nodes to advertise that they support BIP 37 would be impossible without “extensive protocol changes.” What changes would make this possible?Read more