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Add -blocksonly mode to reduce traffic section #1544
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chris-belcher commentedMar 15, 2017
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In extreme bandwidth limited situations, -blockonly can reduce the bandwidth requirement to about 144MB per day, at the cost of not seeing transactions until they're confirmed.
https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#reduce-traffic
This thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1377345.0) talks about an 88% reduction but non-blocksonly will have improved because compact blocks has been created since then.