How Do I use the prune option on bitcoin core?

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How Do I use the prune option on bitcoin core ? as it is taking forever to sync

oli

Posted 2017-03-07T18:30:55.293

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Question was closed 2017-03-08T08:17:30.550

As Nick said, pruning doesn't speed up synchronization. I think you're actually looking for: How to increase the speed of synchronisation?.

Murch 2017-03-08T08:17:02.940

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Like so:

prune=550

in your bitcoin.conf in your data directory.

This will not make blockchain sync faster. It will make it take less space, though, which can be helpful.

(I have only 40 gigabytes of storage on my system, so this helps me a lot.)

Nick ODell

Posted 2017-03-07T18:30:55.293

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