Thanks a lot for your quick answer.
1) bootstrap.dat (1,851,231 KB)
the resulting blk0001.dat is 968,000 KB now, but only because I started it already 14 hours ago. So does this really take almost 2 days, even with a bootstrap offline block repository?
Depends on the speed of your computer. I can reload it from bootstrap in about 20-hours on my 5-year-old wallet-store PC. It takes a bit of time to process the 1.8GB of data. Total size is over 2GB today.
Over 2 GB ... So shouldn't I rather go for a newer bootstrap than the 1,851,231 KB one ?
Who would be willing to do a newer one?
2) syncing from scratch, on a 2nd machine.
First there were no peers, but then I added many dozens of them from
https://www.coinexchange.io/network/peers/MINT and finally got ... "6 active connections".
But now it is stuck at block 500. 2830755 to go?
Give it time. A full sync will take a few days.
Alright.
After quitting, and restarting, I could now get it to 5372 blocks.
But now it is stuck there.
Plus, it is assuming 3695262 blocks now, not 2.8 million.
quit. restart ... 5872 blocks now, but assuming 2100001 blocks now. This is confusing. Are there bad nodes perhaps, with wrong blocks?
And: Do I have to always kill and restart the wallet, to get it syncing continuously?
There aren't a lot of peers out there right now, but I'm one of them.
Good to know. Is your IP among the list I got from coinexchange?