Hello.

I think I do understand inner BitCoin workings a bit, but one thing bothers me, even as a "simple" user.

I want to receive a payment. I haven't opened BitCoin application in about 3 months. So, I open the application, expecting the payment in few minutes.

...but I have to wait hours and hours and hours, while the client downloads the last 10 000 blocks slooooowwwwllyyyy.... one... by .... one. (Eating huge chunks of RAM and CPU as a byproduct, but I guess that has more to do with my aging computer.)

Do I have any alternative? Like, say, don't download the blockchain from the deadslow P2P network, but from some "trusted" place like blockexplorer?

Yes, I know I can use some online bitcoin wallet, but that didn't work out so well with MyBitcoin, right.

edit:

Aah. Right now, I discovered this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/

It seems about allright, but why is there "may" in quotes? Shouldn't the -rescan option just work?

edit2:
no it doesn't. The linked blockchain is ancient. Oh well, another few hours of downloading.