This is for anyone having issues syncing the Ethereum blockchain especially for those finding it extremely slow like I did. After a lot of hassle and giving up on a few occasions due to the slow sync speed I ended up doing a bit of research and found these 2 commands below. Managed to sync in a few hours instead of days by doing this.


Run both from the command line and replace /path/to/my/etherwallet_install/ with where you have the Ethereum wallet installed to.

/path/to/my/etherwallet_install/resources/node/geth removedb        (Remove blockchain and state databases)

/path/to/my/etherwallet_install/resources/node/geth --fast              (Enables fast syncing through state downloads)


My Ethereum wallet is located on a windows machine so the path for geth may differ on a linux machine it's been a while since a had Ethereum on a linux VM. Basically once geth has downloaded the blockchain and imported up to the lasted block it can be closed and then the Ethereum wallet can be started and it should sync the last few blocks and start up.

Hope this helps a few Trumpians out...