Hello to you all Reddcoiners, hope this finds you well.
I am new to RDD, just purchased a little bit to hold long term, but I have a question with the reddcoin wallet. I have grabbed a copy for my Mac, it is been syncing up for the last couple hours. My question is, am I going to be another node on the network with the whole block chain downloaded/synced up with the rest of the world on my laptop? It said it needs a 20Gb on the disk for the data and it will keep growing, that tells me I do not have just a wallet, I have the entire network running on my computer, all the transactions/blocks however you name it… Is this the way to go? Is this the simplest solution to have RDD wallet? Or I am missing something/confused? Could this participation into the network be made optional? Like I can opt in if I want to, otherwise just get the wallet which should be a few megabytes? Do I have to sync it up with the entire network every time I want to access my own wallet? It is currently like 1% sync up completed, and it tells me “Last block received was generated 3 years and 27 weeks ago”, this tells me I am downloading all the blocks ever existed out there, now the question is, what if this thing grows like facebook, or even bitcoin itself, my 250Gb hard drive is a drop in the ocean right? Sorry for so many questions but I want to understand the architecture here…
Thanks and have a great weekend.
