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What is the parity light pruning mode?

Parity offers four different pruning methods: archive, basic, fast and light: --pruning METHOD Configure pruning of the state/storage trie. METHOD may be one of ...
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Difference between a pruned and unpruned blockchain

At the Berlin Blockchain Meetup, Gustav Simonsson teased the Homestead release coming soon (tm) and we were discussing blockchain bloat and the current size of the Ethereum blockchain. We discussed ...
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Can Ethereum be pruned to the extent that it could be run from a Raspberry Pi?

What are the limits to how much the ETH blockchain can be pruned. Will ETH ever be practical on devices with limited resources such as a Raspberry Pi, Android or iOS wallet?
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