Post by TheCharlatan
Yes they can, pruned nodes fully download and validate all historical blocks. They just throw the data away once they validated it.
Agree. But they still need the data from someone.
This change will result to even more pruned nodes, consequently more centralization on the level of "providers of the true"
We should always calculate future resource burdens on nodes with full blocks, if the premise is that we want Bitcoin to be used. Changing policy does not change this calculation.
And it will increase because of this change. 😢
What will increase?
Storage space needed for full block nodes.