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Does sharding help a fully verifying node to reduce the bandwidth needed for an Initial Block Download (IBD) ?

Wouldn't it need to very each individual shard?




Not sure, but I really like the modal of MaidSafe where there's no blockchain to download. Instead, data is shared amount a group of peers.




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