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Bitcoin for example (and many others), will prune old blocks that are no longer required to make transactions on the network. If a block has all unspent inputs

Bitcoin for example (and many others), will prune old blocks that are no longer required to make transactions on the network. If a block has all unspent inputs used up, the block will be pruned

vidanay 8y ago
That is a logical solution for Bitcoin. Doesn't Etherium track transactions back to the beginning of time though? That sounds like a Shlemiel The Painter problem.
- azamatms 8y ago
  There's already full-node implementations that address state tree pruning: https://wiki.parity.io/Getting-Synced#database-pruning https://wiki.parity.io/Getting-Synced#database-pruning
- vidanay 8y ago
  @azamatms Thanks!