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Been awhile since I generated a wallet with the monero GUI and noticed this new section called 'bootstrap node' in the daemon settings section when creating a new wallet - what exactly is this?

Recently seen dEBRUYNE_1's reddit post regarding making the monero-GUI plug and play by running the daemon in the background whilst being connected to a temporary remote node. This bootstrap node already in the GUI sounds like it does just this, is that correct?

seek adventure
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In the GUI, bootstrap node is a remote node to use whilst also syncing the blockchain. This is different to a straight up remote node in that using a remote node will not also sync the blockchain to local.

With regards to dEBRUYNE_1's reddit post, what is described is to default to using a bootstrap node and then automatically switch to local node when the blockchain has fully synced.

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