Quote from: dwyane36 on Today at 04:55:09 PM

Quote from: AFUcrania on Today at 11:07:25 AM

This is somehow implausible if you mean a cold wallet. Its synchronization from scratch takes a maximum of 5 days, with a low Internet speed.
You can also trim old blocks so that it does not take up much space, and a maximum of 13 gigabytes at the moment.
To do this, it is enough to write a command in the wallet shortcut after installing the wallet (necessarily before the first launch of the wallet), for example:
D:\BTC\BTCWallet\bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=D:\BTC\BTCWallet\ -prune=600 -listen=0

Well, and accordingly, you need to make a backup of the wallet at least once a week, when there are a lot of transactions in it, so that you don’t have to download all the blocks from scratch again, and in general, when there is a balance on it.

Even if you use the prune command, the entire blockchain is still downloaded and validated first. It's also worth noting that blockchain download times are affected not only by slow internet speed but also by hardware components. In particular, a weak CPU and low RAM can significantly slow down this process, and if you download to an HDD, this process can take weeks rather than days.
In the case of freebitcoin, it can be assumed that they simply have a weak server and therefore expect the synchronization process to take some time.

Storing a cold wallet on a server, and even on a weak one, is idiotic.
I had a wallet backup, but I remembered that the old flash drive had wallet.dat, which had money on it. But to restore it, I had to completely synchronize the wallet again.
I have a rather outdated laptop from 2020 and a wallet on the HDD from scratch after installation, it should have synchronized in 5 days (that's what it showed). But I still decided to run synchronization on the SSD. The wallet synchronized in 3 days. Maybe it would have been almost the same on the HDD. It initially shows incorrect values.