Hi all. I am new to this environment and am in desperate need of some help. My business has been infected with a crypto virus and we are going to have to pay the ransome. I have setup a wallet in the Bit Core ap and have transferred coins to it but it appears that there is a synchronization process that is taking forever to complete. Is there a direct download of this data that would allow me to expedite?
Looking for any assistance you can offer.
The direct download isn't likely to be much faster. The software that you've chosen to use (Bitcoin Core) is a "Full Node" wallet, meaning that it needs to
verify every transaction that has ever occurred in the history of bitcoin since it's inception in 2009. Even if you download the file, the software will still need to complete the verification.
Generally, with a good connection to good peers on a reasonably modern computer the synchronization shouldn't take more than a day.
If you really don't want to wait for the synchronization to complete (or if you don't have enough disk space available for the entire blockchain (somewhere around 30GB), then you will want to consider a SPV (Simplified Payment Verification) wallet such as MultiBit or Electrum. It sounds like you rushed into choosing a wallet without taking the time to learn what the features and benefits of each are and then sent bitcoins to your chosen wallet without understanding the limitations of your choice.
You can extract the private key from the Bitcoin Core wallet and import it into another wallet that allows private key importing. That will give you immediate access to the bitcoins in that new wallet.