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Title: Workaround to huge blockchain size - download, resolve, transfer Post by: mackminer on December 28, 2016, 10:46:20 PM The file is 80 gig the last time I checked....i don't have enough space on my disk for it although I can connect another drive.
I wanted to transfer the wallet.dat to another client but it wasn't possible at the time. I would have tried a few.... Have I any more options rather than the big download? Title: Re: Workaround to huge blockchain size - download, resolve, transfer Post by: cr1776 on December 28, 2016, 10:59:45 PM The file is 80 gig the last time I checked....i don't have enough space on my disk for it although I can connect another drive. I wanted to transfer the wallet.dat to another client but it wasn't possible at the time. I would have tried a few.... Have I any more options rather than the big download? Just export the keys and import into a lightweight wallet. (But keep a backup of the wallet.dat since it is small) Title: Re: Workaround to huge blockchain size - download, resolve, transfer Post by: shorena on December 28, 2016, 11:32:23 PM You can use the prune option to only kept part of the blockchain, if you dont want to switch to a different wallet. You still have to download the data though.
Title: Re: Workaround to huge blockchain size - download, resolve, transfer Post by: DannyHamilton on December 29, 2016, 01:32:09 AM Have I any more options rather than the big download? That depends on what you are trying to do. As long as you have a source for blockchain information that you trust, you can use Bitcoin Core to create transactions without downloading the blockchain. |