Title: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: betatest512 on October 10, 2012, 06:01:06 AM on http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/ the blockchain's .dat file's are there but the blkindex.dat file is not there
and i want one for windows is there a place from where i can download the blockchain through the browser Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: Revalin on October 10, 2012, 06:08:43 AM http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/
Also, 7zip can open .tar files on Windows. Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: betatest512 on October 10, 2012, 06:11:11 AM http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/ Also, 7zip can open .tar files on Windows. that is very old is there any site that host's like this week's data Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: Revalin on October 10, 2012, 06:12:58 AM Sure, http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/
Get yourself a copy of 7zip. :) Or just fire up the client and let it download it for you. Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: betatest512 on October 10, 2012, 06:15:04 AM Sure, http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/ Get yourself a copy of 7zip. :) Or just fire up the client and let it download it for you. yes i downloaded it from here and unpacked from 7-zip but it does not have blkindex.dat file Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: Stephen Gornick on October 10, 2012, 06:51:45 AM yes i downloaded it from here and unpacked from 7-zip but it does not have blkindex.dat file You can extract the two blk*.dat files to a temporary folder and then use bitcoin-qt -loadblock=FILE to have it load the blockchain data from the local file rather than from the network. It still goes through the verification for each transaction so the advantage over a normal P2P network download is that the client is never waiting on a new block. But it does go faster. Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: betatest512 on October 10, 2012, 06:58:19 AM yes i downloaded it from here and unpacked from 7-zip but it does not have blkindex.dat file You can extract the two blk*.dat files to a temporary folder and then use bitcoin-qt -loadblock=FILE to have it load the blockchain data from the local file rather than from the network. It still goes through the verification for each transaction so the advantage over a normal P2P network download is that the client is never waiting on a new block. But it does go faster. Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: Stephen Gornick on October 10, 2012, 07:51:32 AM when i use bitcoin-qt -loadblock=FILE what should i put in the place of FILE slould i put blk00001.dat or blk00002.dat file? =blk0001.dat or ="C:\temp\blk0001.dat" (if you need to specify the path). Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: Pieter Wuille on October 11, 2012, 02:09:33 PM If you want to import both, use -loadblock=blk0001.dat -loadblock=blk0002.dat (in that order).
For 0.8 there may be a -reindex coming up, which will recreate blkindex.dat from existing blk* files. Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: deepceleron on October 11, 2012, 05:58:22 PM I've got a copy available in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51456.0, it's from July 15, but if you are expecting payments or have recent payments that haven't yet been received into your wallet, you don't want to substitute a too-new blockchain, you want to download recent blocks yourself and process them normally.
Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: MysteryMiner on October 11, 2012, 07:40:34 PM Quote where can i download the blockchain? Where I can find the ultimate truth and happiness?Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: betatest512 on October 11, 2012, 08:00:46 PM Quote where can i download the blockchain? Where I can find the ultimate truth and happiness?NOT IN THIS EARTH Title: Re: where can i download the blockchain? Post by: kjj on October 15, 2012, 03:38:17 PM Look here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117982.msg1266497#msg1266497).
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