How is having one http link that much faster than having your client download it?
I mean, what if you connect to specific, trusted nodes with the addnode switch... shouldn't some bitcoin nodes be just as fast to download from as an http link?
For that you would need to know that there is an addnode switch, how to use it and you would need know IPs too add. Besides that, if you download it via http you can download a compressed archive of the blockchain, if you download it through the client you will get the blockchain snippet by snippet (uncompressed, if i'm not wrong). Also if you are behind Router that uses NAT, you might only get ~8 connections in the client which will cause the download to slow down eventually.
Why aint that Link to fastly get the blockchain in the readmy of the client?!
Because it's not part of the Bitcoin project, the http source is provided by a third party. The external download, outside of the client and from a third party source, comes with the risk of downloading a manipulated block chain. That's why it's not mentioned in the official readme (i guess).
Great, I will delete mine and just use yours!
It's not mine, all thanks goes to
Matt Corallo. :) As Maged said, he's a trusted developer on this board.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4530.0