<p>A pruned node <em>is</em> a full node.  "Full node" means fully validating and enforcing the Bitcoin rule.  Pruning just means that the node does not bother keeping old historical data that is never used for anything except helping new nodes sync up, wallet rescans, and similar.</p>

<p>Pruning will not impact validation performance other than perhaps there may be some small latency spikes created by periodically deleting old blockfiles, or small latency improvements from not participating in feeding historic blocks to newly syncing peers.</p>

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2018-11-22T00:21:42.340Z
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G. Maxwell
<p>If I run a node with prune=550 does the Bitcoin Daemon still receive update tips (mined blocks) just as fast as a full node?  </p>

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Pruned nodes update tip performance
Rauli Kumpulainen
# Pruned nodes update tip performance

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-11-21)

If I run a node with prune=550 does the Bitcoin Daemon still receive update tips (mined blocks) just as fast as a full node?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-11-22. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

A pruned node *is* a full node. "Full node" means fully validating and enforcing the Bitcoin rule. Pruning just means that the node does not bother keeping old historical data that is never used for anything except helping new nodes sync up, wallet rescans, and similar.

Pruning will not impact validation performance other than perhaps there may be some small latency spikes created by periodically deleting old blockfiles, or small latency improvements from not participating in feeding historic blocks to newly syncing peers.


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