Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 10:52:17 AM

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 10:37:20 AM

Did you actually create bootstrap.dat file (see https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/10381) or just compress Bitcoin Core directory?

I didn't know there's a procedure for it, I just compressed blocks and chainstate.

I see. In that case it's slightly different from bootstrap.dat file since Bitcoin Core doesn't verify most things.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 10:52:17 AM

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7z with LZMA2 algorithm could do better job, but i expect it'll be extremely slow.

Even if it saves a few GB, that's only a few percent anyway.

That's true. Last time i tried that with Bitcoin Signet, i got compression ratio 0.63 (505MB / 798MB). For comparison, compression you choose have ratio about 0.81 (397GB / ~486GB).