Bitcoin full node and query server

Sep 19, 2018

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Mlmikael12:38

Does LibBitcoin have any "defragmentation" logic where it's moving around data to put the data relating to the (now-) main chain in a sequence?

1 reply · evoskuil · last Sep 19, 2018

evoskuil18:01

No, libbitcoin never moves or removes a record that it has stored. Blocks form a tree. A “chain” is just an index into that tree.