Quote from: dete on July 18, 2010, 06:13:13 AM

I'm not sure a static download of the first n blocks is really the right solution. The problem isn't that it's so much data for the network to handle, the problem is that the processing and storage of those blocks is really expensive.

Static download is a crutch, fix the real problem: Why should downloading 32M of blocks bring my computer to a halt for a couple hours under any circumstances?!

I don't think the block download brings your computer to a halt, it's more like the program isn't going to burn up 100 megabits to get the blocks. It runs very light on bandwidth and so do the other peers you are connected to get the blocks.

That's why I created those package block downloads, to save time. It's quicker to download a small 32 MB file from my fiber connection than to wait a while for the p2p network to send it to you.