Useful for e-commerce solutions since 200 GB of storage on an EC2 instance costs ~$20 / month. Giving access to a remote shared full node is more complicated and means more servers to keep secure.

Known issues:

• Use pruneheight instead of hammering getblock  #1283
• Crash with pruned node #1296
• sync with pruned bitcoind: getblock ... false exited with status 1 #1502

Once achieved, the following can be removed from the README:

Notice that currently pruned nodes are not supported and may result in lightningd being unable to synchronize with the blockchain.