Is it possible to set a start point for historical blocks?

[blakebyrnes]

If I only want to monitor the blocks from a starting point, is there a way I can tell nakamoto not to go sync headers all the way to genesis on boot up? I don't need history, and I would trust a checkpoint or multiple peers telling me the same block 100 confirmations back is valid.

If it's not already built, where would you recommend I look in the code to try to add this feature?

[vincenzopalazzo]

looking at the BIP https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0157 looks like there is no problem it say "I start monitoring from block X" where block X is somehow one of the recent one.

If it's not already built, where would you recommend I look in the code to try to add this feature?

I think that needs to be built, and we should pass a --stat-height in the https://github.com/cloudhead/nakamoto/blob/master/node/src/main.rs#L11 and state modifying it you will go down to the core and see where the node is starting to fetch headers from the block 0 (I think you need to search by block hash not for block height)