Quote from: rocoro on February 16, 2015, 05:01:15 PM

Quote from: presstab on February 15, 2015, 07:30:46 PM

Download the bootstrap.dat file from the first post. Place the extracted bootstrap.dat into the folder you just deleted everything from. Start your hyperstake.exe (the new version) and patiently wait for the bootstrap process and for your wallet to sync. If your wallet jumps out of bootstrap mode before it finishes (it should be taken through block 235k) then go back into the folder, name bootstrap.dat.old back to bootstrap.dat and then restart your wallet.

Good luck.

Why does bootstrap.dat always have to be imported?
Can't someone just upload the blk*.dat files and the client would just instantly use them and start finishing syncing online?

Just sick of always having to wait for this importing. What is the reason for it?

You could definitely just copy someone elses files (so long as they are the same bdb version, os, etc), but the problem is that you don't know if they are valid. You are trusting someone else.

A bootstrap gives you the entire blockchain, and then your client scans through the rules for the entire chain and indexes it. This is safe. The other way can work I have done it with a copy and paste of blkindex.dat blk0001.dat and database folder), but its not as safe.