Quote from: Lucky Cris on January 23, 2014, 02:50:37 PM

Quote from: GoldenWings91 on January 22, 2014, 08:27:00 PM

You can downloads most of the blockchain as a torrent: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.160

Seriously? I wouldn't trust this if someone paid me!

For one, this is created and endorsed by Jeff Garzik, a well-known member of the community and a Bitcoin Core developer. However, that doesn't matter -- using the bootstrap.dat torrent doesn't require any trust whatsoever. The Bitcoin software imports the blocks from the file, but it validates them first, treating them the same way it would if they came over the Bitcoin network.

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