lightning network – Does a pruned node have the same chainstate/ as the unpruned one? Does not seeing historical data impact transacting?


Let’s assume that I have two identical clearnet-only Bitcoin Core nodes on the same ethernet LAN. I then moved 1BTC on the same day of October of 2021 to the Core Lightning wallets connected to those Bitcoin Core nodes and I then funded a private channel on the same day in each of those wallets. The only difference is that one of them pruned their Bitcoin Core a week ago to a target of 550MB .

Questions:

1. Will both of those Bitcoin Core nodes have the same content of .bitcoin/chainstate/?

2. Will both of those Core Lightning wallets have the same transacting ability? How that could differ if another Lightning implementation be chosen.

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