Bitcoin full node and query server

Apr 13, 2021

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evoskuil01:05

A server can always lie to you, so if you want to know for with reasonable assurance you must obtain the full chain of headers and (statically) validate them. If you want to know for sure you need to validate the entire chain. If it's your own server it's a fairly pointless exercise.