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SatsAndSports 3 months ago
Do the nodes advertise if they are full/archive/SPV nodes? And can those claims be verified? I.e. if a node claims to be an archival node, can we ask it for an arbitrary block? I ask because I guess 'fake' nodes could be easily set up quickly and cheaply, where they are missing some functionality or they delegate to full nodes if needed

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jb55 _@jb55.com 3 months ago
I haven't looked at the bitcoin network code in awhile but I would imagine it would or at least could be smart enough to do those kinds of things. I can take a look.