Author: Mike Hearn 2012-06-11 20:36:13
Published on: 2012-06-11T20:36:13+00:00
The discussion is about the possibility of shipping pruned chains in a deterministic process to produce archival chains. The person suggests that pruning should be deterministic and proposes a method of downloading a binary containing pre-indexed and pruned chain up to a certain block, deleting data files, running with "-syncto=180000 -prune" and checking the hashes of the newly created files against what was downloaded. This method does not require additional effort and can be verified through a cron job. However, it is necessary for someone to verify that the binaries match the source, as otherwise the software could do anything without anyone knowing.
Updated on: 2023-06-06T04:59:22.150088+00:00