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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin Core version 0.10.2 released
by
shorena
on 20/05/2015, 08:27:54 UTC
The only problem I have in installing Bitcoin Core in my machine is the long download time of the block chain. Because of slow internet, it will take me weeks to complete the download. Tried the torrent, even that will take me a week or so of synchronization. Sad

I can see where that would be a problem for somebody with slow internet or data caps.

Luckily The Bitcoin Core Developers have been making headway in regards to the speed at which the blockchain downloads.

That's good to hear since loading the full blockchain takes a while on my PC
Still using a pre 0.10 edition myself so will need to upgrade soon

You dont need to download the data again after an update. The existing data will be used its just the executable part of bitcoin core that is replaced.

@dothebeats you could probably buy a USB stick or set of DVDs with the bootstrap.dat. As long as your connection is fast enough to stay synced it would only require you to download a few days worth of blockchain data.