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Made clear that it would also be interesting to see what pruning nodes cannot do.
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What do pruning nodes contribute to the network?

Pruning nodes are described in the sourcecode thusly:

-prune=<n>: Reduce storage requirements by pruning (deleting) old blocks. This mode is incompatible with -txindex and -rescan.

I’ve watched that my node has been consistently uploading less than it has been downloading since I set it to run in pruning mode.

  • What services do pruning nodes still perform?
  • Do they upload blocks and transactions?
  • Can they service thin clients?
  • What can a pruning node not do, that a non-pruning node does?
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