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Add archive node description (#114)
* Add archive node description The description for archive nodes was missing. * Change full node description as suggested * accept tomaka's suggestion Co-authored-by: Pierre Krieger <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Pierre Krieger <[email protected]>
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src/grouping-functions-and-node-capabilities.md

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- Full nodes, which hold in their database all block headers and bodies, plus the storage of recent blocks.
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- Light clients, which only know the headers of recent blocks.
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- Archive nodes, which hold.
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- Archive nodes, which hold in their database all block headers, bodies, and storage of every past block.
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- Plain databases that aren't actually connected to the peer-to-peer network of the blockchain.
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These various node implementations have different capabilities, and it is normal for some implementations to only support some functions and not others. It doesn't make sense for example for a light client to support a function that rotates keys.

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