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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: pedrog on January 18, 2016, 01:51:45 PM



Title: The Scaling Announcement Bitcoin Core Should Have Made
Post by: pedrog on January 18, 2016, 01:51:45 PM
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In addition, it seems we can do even better in terms of performance by sticking with 2𣯚 but allowing non-fully-validating nodes to ignore approximately half of this data. This would be a big improvement that would alleviate the pressure that we抣l be putting nodes by scaling the block size. The improvement is being called Segregated Witness and involves separating signatures out from the main block and putting them into a Merkle tree that only fully-validating nodes have to see.

https://medium.com/@ryanshea/the-scaling-announcement-bitcoin-core-should-have-made-146790f755df


So, with this change full node will now be called fully-validating nodes?

Are the non-fully-validating nodes like SPV wallets?