I recently download Bitcoin Core, and been waiting for it to sync up... it is a highly frustrating experience to wait for so long. It made me wonder ...

If the genesis block could be baked into the code, why can't the next 300,000 blocks be made available in 50K chunks? It's not like they are going to change or anything...

Trust is not an issue as the blocks will still be validated and accepted as today. It will cut out the network handshakes and improve startup times. People can even tshare the blockchain on thumb drives in local meets.

Yes, it is not a 'pure' and 'elegant' bitcoin experience.. but do you think it will make a significant impact on initial sync times?