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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Block chain size/storage and slow downloads for new users
by
halfawake
on 07/11/2014, 23:10:02 UTC
Took me four full days to download the BTC blockchain.
For newcomers and widespread adoption that isnt to hot actually..

I'm surprised it wasn't longer than that if you downloaded it recently, personally.  I downloaded the Blockchain back in June of last year and it took me about 3 full days, and that was when it was "only" 9 GB.

I'm having to do some troubleshooting stuff to recover my computer from a virus I had earlier, enough that it may end up wiping my drive knowing how messed up Windows is.  Is the blockchain BitTorrent still being maintained?  I'm just wondering because I need to know if I need to make a backup of the blockchain on my hard drive.