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Ability to avoid storing unnecessary data about prior transactions. For example one could use pruning to disable storing older transaction signatures on disk once they are verified. Archive nodes could be used to store the signatures disabled in the pruning branch.

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I went to the advanced section for the GUI and set the path for the node as: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ ls -hal Monero/lmdb/ total 11G drwx------ 2 nicholas nicholas 4.0K Jun 5 00:47 . ...
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I have the blockchain already downloaded. I stopped monerod and restarted it with a configuration file with prune-blockchain=true in it. I started monerod again and the last bit of output was: 2022-...
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When using the --prune-blockchain flag in the Monero GUI, the "Daemon blocks remaining" message still seems to start as the number of blocks in the full (unpruned) ledger. Is this normal? ...
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I plan on using monerod only for a couple of weeks a year with --prune-blockchain flag to keep the blockchain data below 20GB. In the meantime I will be reinstalling the operating system of the PC ...
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Only shows the below - how can I run the pruning tool on mac without the utility being in the package? - I really need to get the blockchain database down in size. All posts say it should be in the ...
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According to this web https://web.getmonero.org/2019/02/01/pruning.html Why only 2/3 of the blockchain data can be pruned? 1/3 of the blockchain cannot be pruned. This pruning is not as efficient as ...
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I'm pruning my monero blockchain, but I see there are 2 commands: monero-blockchain-prune-known-spent-data monero-blockchain-prune What is the difference?
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Bitcoin core has the ability to prune its blockchain all the way down to 550MB, but monero after pruning is 25GB. Why can't monero also give users the ability to prune to an amount of our choosing?
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I'm looking to download the full pruned blockchain for Monero instead of syncing it and then pruning it. Where can I find this pruned monero blockchain file?
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According to the release notes GUI v0.14.1.0 includes blockchain pruning. How do I utilize this feature with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
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I've been running a pruned node on a very low-end server ( <2GB of RAM), and monerod keeps spitting out lines like that every couple blocks. May be relevant, opening a wallet with the RPC throws ...
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After pruning the monero blockchain, can I copy this pruned blockchain from the .bitmonero folder to another computer and just start syncing from there? What are some disadvantages of pruning the ...
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Monero v0.14.1 has just been released with pruning. How does one activate it on the command line for ubuntu?
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In Monero's early history, many transactions did not include any decoys. It was extremely clear that these outputs were spent. Could Monero prune these known spent outputs? Here is an example ...
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Monero's blockchain is almost 50GB as of March 2018 and my laptop doesn't have that much space to spare anymore. Is there a pruned version of the monero blockchain?
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