From 012mistery at frankentrikes.com Tue Mar 27 03:26:53 2018 From: 012mistery at frankentrikes.com (Segue) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:26:53 -0700 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Can I try Lightning without running a fully-fledged bitcoin block chain? In-Reply-To: <7eaf1653-dc82-693b-b41d-1b2ef53cc995@frankentrikes.com> References: <7eaf1653-dc82-693b-b41d-1b2ef53cc995@frankentrikes.com> Message-ID: Developers, On THIS note and slightly off-topic but relevant, why can't chunks of blockchain peel off the backend periodically and be archived, say on minimum of 150 computers across 7 continents? It seems crazy to continue adding on to an increasingly long chain to infinity if the old chapters (i.e. more than, say, 2 years old) could be stored in an evenly distributed manner across the planet.? The same 150 computers would not need to store every chapter either, just the index would need to be widely distributed in order to reconnect with a chapter if needed. Then maybe it is no longer a limitation in the future for people like Yubin. Segue On 3/26/18 6:12 PM, lightning-dev-request at lists.linuxfoundation.org wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:56:05 +0100 > From: Federico Tenga > To: Yubin Ruan > Cc:lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > Subject: Re: [Lightning-dev] Can I try Lightning without running a > fully-fledged bitcoin block chain? > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > You can try pruning, you will still have to validate the whole chain so it > takes time, but you won't need to store all the blockchain on your disk. > > On 17 March 2018 at 10:02, Yubin Ruan wrote: > >> I just don't have so much space for a storing the whole blockchain on my >> laptop. >> >> Yubin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lightning-dev mailing list >> Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: