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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [ANN] Bitcoin blockchain data torrent
by
sd
on 15/07/2014, 21:53:54 UTC
Would be too much to ask if they added like, not daily but maybe weekly updated blockchain file? Everytime someone new comes to Bitcoin, the first thing they say is how much of a pain in the ass it is to sync, unless they are using 3rd party wallets that is, but im too used to the simple niceness of the classic wallet to change  Smiley

There isn't a 'they', there is only an 'us'. If you think it should be done then do it. I was going to but my tests showed that using a bootstrap file doesn't load data into bitcoind any faster than pulling the data from the live network for blocks beyond 295000. The recent blocks seem more complicated than earlier ones. Maybe a bigger bootstrap file would still be useful to some people.

I really think that most users should be using a light client like electrum anyway. Interested companies, organizations, and technical users should be running the full nodes, not every guy who wants to make small purchases.