Quote from: ETFbitcoin on September 16, 2019, 05:10:39 PM

Quote from: wwzsocki on September 16, 2019, 07:40:24 AM

...Keep thinking about this and maybe bootstrap file works better (faster) in POS coins because if I remember correctly, I have used it only for alts like Pivx, Dash, Bitsend, Masternodecoin and never in POW mined coins like our old good Bitcoin?

That's because Bitcoin have many full nodes with fast upload speed while AFAIK most altcoin have few full nodes with mediocre upload speed.

If there aren't many Bitcoin full node or upload speed of bitcoin node isn't fast, downloading bootstrap would be faster.

I was afraid that the number of full nodes may decrease drastically taking into consideration the size of the blockchain which is technically too high for a hard disk of a PC.

I was running a full node for almost 4 years because Bitcoin-QT was the only one available wallet when I started to use and later mine BTC. Additionally, I always heard that the best thing we can do to support the network is to run a full node but in today's reality, I rather doubt if average people decide to do it through downloading the whole blockchain because of the size. There is no comparison to the times when a few hours of synchronization and a medium-class computer was enough to be a happy owner of a full node.

Despite everything, the number of full nodes increases every year and today we have already 9137 according to https://bitnodes.earn.com/. It looks like a phenomenon to me.

It would be great if some solution could be implemented to speed up the synchronization because it would be only worst during the time.