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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [ANN] Bitcoin blockchain data torrent
by
jgarzik
on 21/02/2013, 05:12:05 UTC
I have an up-to-date copy of the blockchain.  Is there an easy way to generate bootstrap.dat from it so I can seed it without having to download the whole thing again?

This script is used to generate bootstrap.dat:
https://github.com/jgarzik/pynode/blob/master/mkbootstrap.py

It requires an up-to-date pynode chain database.

In theory, someone could write a script that processes bitcoind's $DATADIR/blocks directory into bootstrap.dat, but no one has written that yet.