Quote from: Felicity_Tide on April 25, 2025, 07:38:57 PM

I just finished downloading the latest version but haven't installed it yet.
Kind of novious because i'm not certain of what might happen.
If I'm not convinced enough, I will just move on with my current version till download completion, before updating to the newly released version.

It won't affect anything so far done the right way.. just backup your block data incase , by default it should be in the "~\Appdata\roaming\bitcoin" not sure because i did change my block directory to desktop (by default) while installing, I did used the bitcoin-qt too.

You can continue with the sync , then do the update later when it's done, if you're still concerned..

Btw you can always check the release note markdown file it contains how you can upgrade, not that much of a hassle though
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-29.0.md --- for the current version

Quote from: Felicity_Tide on April 25, 2025, 07:38:57 PM

Quote from: Accardo on April 25, 2025, 11:10:35 AM

~snip

However, it's unlikely that a new version of the Bitcoin core network would solve the issue of your ISP.

Yeah, I understand that the issue of ISP is completely different, and I've started making arrangements to switch to my last option because the others are very terrible.

ISP is one thing, but you can try upgrading your RAM to 16GB or more, with more Ram you can increase your db-cache.

Also, if your hard drive is not an SSD, you can upgrade to an SSD, but with that, you will have to reinstall a new Windows OS. Unless there's an extra slot for the hard drive, then if you're using the extra slot, you'll still need to make a couple of changes, like moving your block data to the SSD drive and then linking it through the conf file using the new block data directory.
These changes will increase the Read and Write process and make the sync faster .

Quote from: Felicity_Tide on April 25, 2025, 07:38:57 PM

Quote from: Ambatman on April 25, 2025, 11:37:59 AM

Quote from: achow101 on March 02, 2024, 08:56:17 PM

You can copy all of the files, but most are not needed for the average user. bitcoind and bitcoin-qt are the main binaries. They are each self contained and do not rely on each other or any other files in the release.

Yeah, thanks for sharing this.
How about I just copy the folder that houses the entire file.
I can't bare to miss something while attempting to perform the update.

That’s not your case though, but still another approach to updating your bitcoin core.
From https://bitcoincore.org/bin ~ you can see the list of all releases,
You need the https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0/ the win64.zip to be precise.
Downlod, unzip qnd run bitcoin-qt... That’s all , you can decide to keep the two , one or remove the old by replace . Don't forget to backup.