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The solution to this is a challenge-response protocol: verification nodes issue 'challenges' in the form of target transaction indices, and upon receiving a node a light node treats the block as untrusted until another node, whether the miner or another verifier, provides a subset of Patricia nodes as a proof of validity.1) You have to verify -1MB worth of transactions.