Hi steve321,

http://216.14.113.56/cryptochainer.chains/chains/AnonCoin_blockchain.zip : The requested URL /cryptochainer.chains/chains/AnonCoin_blockchain.zip was not found on this server.

Also, it may have been the case the blockchain was slow to synch on 0.8.5.6, but with this new client 0.9.6.11 featuring Headers-first synchronisation it is much more quick!

Here is a test I did today:

21h50: start a freshly installed Anoncoin 0.9.6.11 64 bit with no blockchain and no bootstrap.dat, on a win7 laptop

21h50-23h30: Synchronisation of the block-headers takes 1h40 (see the first part of the graph, with smallest bandwidth).
It may seems the client is doing nothing as the blocks increment slowly, but the progress can be followed by checking the bandwidth use or by typing 'getchaintips' in the debug console.



23h30: begin block download from 16 peers in parallel (the blocks increment quickly and bandwidth increase alot). Header-first synchronisation as adapted in Anoncoin 0.9.6.11 download the headers from 2 peers in parallel but the blocks from all the peers, here from 16 peers which is the max outbound connections possible.



1h30: Anoncoin 0.9.6.11 was fully synched after 3h40 and 506 MB.



So I would not say "this coin takes nearly forever to sync from scratch!"

Synching through an I2P-only session takes about three time as long without bootstrap. The bootstrap can be downloaded following those instructions.