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Post-BIP-110 fork: Is it necessary to resync from block 0?

I've been running a pruned Bitcoin Knots node with BIP-110 enabled, with Core Lightning connected to it. BIP-110 activated at block 961,632 on 8 August, and Luke Dashjr's hard fork went live on 1 September.

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I've been running a pruned Bitcoin Knots node with BIP-110 enabled, with Core Lightning connected to it.

BIP-110 activated at block 961,632 on 8 August, and Luke Dashjr's hard fork went live on 1 September.

I only run it when I need to transact, roughly once a week.

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I've been running a pruned Bitcoin Knots node with BIP-110 enabled, with Core Lightning connected to it. BIP-110 activated at block 961,632 on 8 August, and Luke Dashjr's hard fork went live on 1 September. I only run it when I need to transact, roughly once a week.

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I only run it when I need to transact, roughly once a week. After BIP-110 was activated, I noticed that my UTXO set became smaller. The last time I ran the node was on 20 August 2026.

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