I've been playing around with Floresta a lot lately, reporting bugs and testing what it can do
I often see it discussed as a solution for storage-limited nodes: you can prune blocks *and* prune the utxo set
I'm starting to think it can do more.
Specifically, I want to experiment with running it *with* a full blockchain, while *not* storing the utxo set. Spam has grown the utxo set to 12GB+. What if utreexo/floresta fixes this? What if you can have a full archival node, but your "utxo set" only uses a few kilobytes?
https://github.com/vinteumorg/Floresta/
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