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@ mike
2025-05-09 11:08:33This makes sense to me. As a miner, I am mostly trying to guess the hashed puzzle. But I also need to offer a template (if I’m allowed to) and verify and choose the proposed transactions for the block I mine. To verify the transactions, I at least need a lightweight node in order to receive those transactions, and a UTXO set to verify. The mempool is important, the blockchain, not so much.