Quote from: criptocambio on May 02, 2019, 12:54:33 PM

Quote from: Faust Roland on May 02, 2019, 11:37:44 AM

Hi, I uploaded compressed content .clam (except my wallet and clam.conf) - the last block included is height=2535010 date=05/02/19 06:10:40
http://46.36.39.117:9080/ - its my test VM, if it will work well, I'll do proper domain, interface and automatic daily update.

Its done from the linux (Ubuntu) client and I tested it with separate linux and it seems works. I'll try to test it with windows and raspberry client soon but if you want to betatest, feel free to download it.

Linux instructions: Just unzip everything into the .clam folder.
Windows instructions: To be determined

Thanks, Faust! Thats a very nice work!

But the problem with this is that nobody can be sure that your copy of the blockchain was not tampered and/or is a fork of the original chain. So before everyone download it, please wait for some confirmations from the developers that this copy is genuine, or you might lose your coins.

Another problem with this is that nobody can be sure that there is no backdoor or any malicious code in the zip that could steal wallet.dat data.

And please dont take this as a insult, Faust: Its because in the crypto community you better be safe than sorry. So your work is very appreciated, but you need to make a reputation before releasing this type of files.

Did you downloaded the ZIP from Faust? You can check if the blockchain is correct by following these steps:

1 - Put the zipped files in the CLAM folder without your wallet.dat, and preferably in a virtual machine without any sensitive data.

2 - Open the clam daemon, and wait for it to finish sync. You can speed the synchronization process by using

Code:

maxorphanblocks=10000

on clam.conf file

3 - type

Code:

getbestblockhash

to get the latest block hash

4 - Access http://khashier.com and click on the latest block number (link in blue)

The hash presented in khashier sould be the same you got in your clam client. This does not guarantee that the files in the zip arent malicious, tough.

Suggestion to Faust: Creating a torrent might be a better idea to serve these files.

For everyone having problems syncing: Please use the new beta client, it syncs much faster. It can be found here:
https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/tree/2.1.0

Thanks for the highlighting the issues - never trust anyone online (the same applies for the 2.1.0 new beta client*). When I was downloading zipped PIVX blockchain I did basically the same you mentioned (check last block against public blockchain explorer)

And its better that someone else point it out as the original publisher could post misleading information how to verify...

I just can't figure out how having forked chain could lead to loosing coin - as they will stay where they are on the original chain. And there are no executable binary in the .clam that could be tampered.

Gaining reputation is hard.

* The address of the git repository is the the same as the linked in the official site