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Board Hardware
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
by
n0nce
on 19/04/2022, 02:28:08 UTC
Good to know, I'm almost there.  96%. If I can get the other full miner going, any way to short cut, downloading the node?

I know with Monero, I was able to download, and get it indexed.   Any similar process for bitcoin?
There is nothing like a 'official download' of the blockchain, but if you already have one node, you could copy its blocks directory to the other node's SSD and then start it up. Bitcoin Core detects that the directory changed and starts indexing it without redownloading everything. Keep in mind that on many such small board computers you spend more time verifying (computationally intensive) than downloading, as evidenced by a usually much slower download speed than what your internet connection offers.