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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Is it normal that Bitcoin Core wallet takes hours to verify blocks and start?
by
ranochigo
on 25/06/2014, 03:11:08 UTC
I installed Bitcoin Core on my laptop and copied ~22GB of bitcoin data from my PC (blocks folder, chainstate folder, wallet.dat ...)
I launched Bitcoin more than 6 hours ago and its still hasn't started. Task Manager shows that its using %60+ CPU and 500-600 MB RAM resources.

Is that normal?
Yes, it usually will take ~1 day to download the whole blockchain. Once downloaded your computer will serve as a full node while QT is open.
I think OP has already downloaded the full blockchain, the QT is rescanning now, not downloading blocks.