Quote from: Leningrad00 on November 13, 2018, 08:28:04 AM

Dear All!

I've used a desktop wallet. Have used. Now I don't know where am I because of it's impossible to call it "use".

After the v3 was published I have found out that my wallet is out of sync, devs have changed the blockchain storage type to SQLite, the old blockchain is useless and there is no a new blockchain to download. So I had to resync my wallet from 0.
It took not so long time, just about 4 weeks. You know, it's more than 3 and less than 5.
4 weeks!

Meanhile a new wallet was published, v3.3.2.
And my wallet says it's out of sync again!

What the hell is going on? You mean I have to wait for a 4 weeks again?

Now I have about 85GB of the various official blockchains, 0 warnings about such critical changes as a change of blockchain storaging type and no official information about what is going on.

Is there any ways for normal use of BCN in present time or should I forget of it?

Why can't you publish a blockchain/bootstrap/fckng-sync-file or something else not to waste my time and electricity!

Hi, Leningrad00!

We are sorry to hear about your issue. Thanks for the info.

There was just one time it was necessary to resync the blockchain this year - when updating to version 3.2.0. It is an inconvenience of sorts, but it allowed us to change the database format, and it got noticeably faster and smaller.

What you can do is connect to the public node you trust and avoid syncig the blockchain altogether. All you need to do is go to “Tools” -> “Wallet daemon parameters” and use the following command with the IP and port of your node of choice:

--bytecoind-remote-address=

Take a look here for the node address, for example:

https://node.bytecoins.world/

What is worth noting here is that as our tests showed, in most cases the harddrive is the bottleneck when syncing the blockchain. During the sync, the software not only downloads the data, but also makes a lot of cryptographic and read/write operations on the harddrive. The actual amount of information, transferred through the network is around 10 GB, less than the half of the blockchain. As a side note, we recommend you to check how much time the network and the harddrive are busy to determine the bottleneck.