Tried the bootstrap from git (https://github.com/bitcreditscc/bootstrap), which got me to height 299611, got 4 connections and new blocks slowly coming in (mega links are not very practical on linux servers... though the bootstrap git is getting huge)

edit: no luck, daemon got stuck at 304039

edit 2: downloaded the mega file, but it's not a bootstrap, but a full download (ie. it will not be verified for correctness by the daemon), PM'ed to bitcreditscc for confirmation it's valid