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    The argument to pruning is how much disk space to use for blocks and undo data associated with them. It does not include and does not apply to the chain state or block index databases. Do not increase the number to account for them. Commented May 21, 2015 at 16:30
  • @PieterWuille That's why i decreased the number for him. In another question he mentioned he had 35GB diskspace. :) But thanks for the addition, you're right that my answer was a bit ambiguous. Commented May 22, 2015 at 9:48
  • Well, if it disables the wallet funcionality, what would someone do with this node? Just mining? If so, in the event of successfully mining, what would be the destination of the generated bitcoin reward? Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 13:23
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    @HenriqueBarcelos The upcoming version WILL allow running a wallet on a pruning node. The current version was just a stepping stone. As a side effect it made sure noone could possibly lose money due to a bug as there was no wallet at all. There are uses for (pruning) full nodes without wallet. For example you can use it as sort of a "firewall" between some internal application that you write yourself but that you don't want to directly hook up to the internet or possibly evil P2P traffic. Or to connect your Android wallet to it, so you are doing full validation, just not on the phone itself. Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 17:28
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    0.12.0 enables wallet support, you might want to update this answer. :) Commented Feb 21, 2016 at 12:58