Current state of Bitcoin Core

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?

GitHub

GitHub - vinteumorg/Floresta: A fully-validating Bitcoin node powered by Utreexo, with an integrated Electrum Server

A fully-validating Bitcoin node powered by Utreexo, with an integrated Electrum Server - vinteumorg/Floresta

Matthew Krabber is at it again!

The filters work perfectly at their main job: keeping filtered content out of your mempool When widely adopted they also delay the propagation of spam-filled blocks, which provides a nice monetary incentive for miners to ignore spam: ignoring spam = fewer blocks orphaned = higher income

Matthew Krabber illustrates the rise of Knots since April

Introducing Matthew Krabber