Quote from: knightmb on November 12, 2013, 09:48:39 AM

Quote from: jojo69 on November 11, 2013, 02:36:45 AM

new OS on a new box here, been...oh I don't know...year and a half since I have to set bitcoin QT up from scratch

sweet baby zombie jesus, hours and hours, I got hours to go, still 15 weeks back and the weeks are obviously getting bigger all the time

obviously this has to be a tired topic so forgive me, what are the strategies that have been proposed to deal with this? Couple years ago it was inconvenient, now it is ridiculous, couple years from now it will be untenable.

mass adoption indeed, lol

Trying wiping the entire block chain and starting over from null. There are not really enough active nodes to download the entire chain in less than a week on even the fastest connection because the rates from the nodes is so low. Sad

set maxconns to 1

then connect=5.9.24.81 (and change it back after it's finished)

i have plenty of bandwidth unless some DoS is going on