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Title: bootstrap.dat Post by: bc0000 on July 14, 2015, 04:12:16 AM Hello. I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent. I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
Title: Re: bootstrap.dat Post by: cr1776 on July 14, 2015, 11:20:01 AM Hello. I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent. I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. If you are running 0.10.2*, you shouldn't need bootstrap.dat. In all likelihood using it would be slower than not using it. (*Any of the 0.10.x versions) Title: Re: bootstrap.dat Post by: OmegaStarScream on July 14, 2015, 11:25:11 AM Hello. I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent. I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Indeed , seems like it got removed from Bitcoin Core page on the Bitcoin.org not sure why though . with some searching I managed to find this link for you : http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/bootstrap.dat.torrent Source of link : http://www.bitcoin-en.com/install-bitcoin-qt-faster.html also here , there is the magnet link : https://bitcoin.org/bin/block-chain/bootstrap.txt Title: Re: bootstrap.dat Post by: cr1776 on July 14, 2015, 12:14:16 PM Hello. I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent. I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Indeed , seems like it got removed from Bitcoin Core page on the Bitcoin.org not sure why though . with some searching I managed to find this link for you : http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/bootstrap.dat.torrent Source of link : http://www.bitcoin-en.com/install-bitcoin-qt-faster.html also here , there is the magnet link : https://bitcoin.org/bin/block-chain/bootstrap.txt It got removed because it is no longer recommended for current bitcoin core versions. They don't say what version they are running, of course. Title: Re: bootstrap.dat Post by: achow101 on July 14, 2015, 02:50:08 PM The bootstrap is no longer necessary. It will actually take longer with the bootstrap since you still need to download all 20-30 Gb of it. The new headers-first synchronization with 0.10+ will sync faster and shifts a lot of the bottleneck to your cpu since the node needs to process and index all of the blocks.
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