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Title: Warning notice on bitcoin.org Post by: JompinDox on August 12, 2012, 04:52:20 PM Many new users coming to bitcoin.org and proceeding to install the client
are quite upset when they find out the software needs hours / days to synchronize, during which there is lots of hard disk thrashing and bandwidth eaten, and all other tasks on their computer slow down to a crawl. Really, is it too much to ask for a little informative notice on the download page? Not everyone is a geek. Title: Re: Warning notice on bitcoin.org Post by: pekv2 on August 12, 2012, 05:41:42 PM http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96141.msg1059816#msg1059816 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin Title: Re: Warning notice on bitcoin.org Post by: Charlie Prime on August 12, 2012, 05:41:53 PM I agree.
I recently suffered through this. I wish I would have been warned that I would need ten to fifteen hours before the software would become usable. Running computers 24/7 in this heat is not an option. It took me four consecutive nights to synchronize with the network. Title: Re: Warning notice on bitcoin.org Post by: WikileaksDude on August 12, 2012, 06:20:46 PM Well, you can always use hybrid wallets like blockchain.info/wallet .
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