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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Blockchain taking ages to be downloaded
by
davidoski
on 23/03/2013, 01:15:22 UTC
Instead of downloading the whole blockchain through the node I advise you to:

1. download the bootstrap.dat file through a torrent client
2. place the bootstrap.dat file into the Bitcoin directory on your PC
3. launch the full node

The node will take most of the blockchain data form the bootstrap.dat file and download the rest from the internet. It'll take much less then downloading the whole blockchain from the internet.

Torrent file you can find here and read about it here.