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Originally Posted by Muad'Dib
i'm using BitcoinCore
It's up to 70GB in size, but at least im in control of everything.
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Oh yeah, I've been using Bitcoin core for five years, so that's something I keep forgetting: downloading the blockchain from scratch takes AGES. That's a major potential deal breaker for someone new who wants to get started.
There's been a few times that the core client has complained about a database error at startup, and wanted to re-download the entire blockchain.
I have backups so I can reasonably effortlessly restore a database that is at most a couple of weeks old, so syncing only takes 30 mins, but again, that's not going to be something that the majority of users will be able (or want) to do.