📅 Original date posted:2018-05-09
📝 Original message:On 3/17/18, someone posted on the Lightning-dev list, "Can I try
Lightning without running a fully-fledged bitcoin block chain? (Yubin
Ruan)." The inquirer was asking because he didn't have much space to
store the entire blockchain on his laptop.
I replied:
"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. "
It was suggested by a couple of lightning developers that I post this
idea on the bitcoin-dev list. So, here I post :).
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