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Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
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Confusing error: wallet birthday ealrier than prune data #1542

Open aglkm opened 1 day ago

aglkm commented 1 day ago

I switched to pruned bitcoin node recently and got this error after trying to use my wallet. I was surprised that it was an issue, since I thought Sparrow should work fine with pruned node, just older transaction history won't be scanned. So I decided to revert back to full node. Then I decided to google a bit and found out I could ignore the error and continue using pruned node with sparrow as is. So the error confused me in a way that I thought that was indeed an error and sparrow can't continue to work, but it appears I could ignore it.

I would suggest to make it clear that this is not an error, but a warning instead and add more explanations so the users can understand that they still can continue using the wallet with pruned mode node.