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How does the concept of "simplified payment verification (SPV)" enable lightweight Bitcoin wallets?

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The concept of Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) enables lightweight Bitcoin wallets by allowing them to verify transactions without needing to download the entire blockchain. Instead of downloading and storing the entire blockchain, which can be large and resource-intensive, SPV wallets only download block headers and verify transactions by consulting full nodes on the network. This makes SPV wallets faster to set_

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