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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by lukifer on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:43PM (#7221433)
It's an implementation detail. Currently the reference wallet stores all transactions, but future versions will be able to prune old blocks and rely on more recent "reference blocks" as their starting point.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ by StavrosK on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @07:36PM (#7221686)
That's interesting, thanks.
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