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Title: Blockchain download Post by: Daekon on June 09, 2017, 05:27:14 PM Would it be beneficial to anyone if I were to host a download/torrent of the entire blockchain on a super fast connection? I recently found that it would not download/took forever on my local machine so I downloaded it on a fast cloud machine and copied it to my local machine.
Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: 2112 on June 09, 2017, 05:38:50 PM Of course if would be beneficial. The problem is that people tend to attack those hosting Bitcoin torrents.
Try to make a post in the historical one of the historical, more popular threads: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1310261.0 You'll get the quickest uptake if you trim your bottstrap.dat to the exactly same height as the torrent posted there on May 30th. That torrent already has at least 10 leechers. Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: achow101 on June 09, 2017, 08:54:40 PM It would require people to trust that you are providing them the correct blockchain. If they were to verify the blockchain after downloading it from you, it wouldn't be anymore help than you hosting a node on that server and people just connecting to your node too.
Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: realproject on June 10, 2017, 02:23:06 PM Would it be beneficial to anyone if I were to host a download/torrent of the entire blockchain on a super fast connection? I recently found that it would not download/took forever on my local machine so I downloaded it on a fast cloud machine and copied it to my local machine. what you mean about host a download? Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: ranochigo on June 10, 2017, 03:02:44 PM Would it be beneficial to anyone if I were to host a download/torrent of the entire blockchain on a super fast connection? I recently found that it would not download/took forever on my local machine so I downloaded it on a fast cloud machine and copied it to my local machine. what you mean about host a download? Other than the security concerns, it isn't feasible for you since it will consume a whole lot of bandwidth and its exposed to attacks too. Bootstrap.dat doesn't make the synchronization much faster than before either. Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: gueorguiev on June 21, 2017, 04:17:12 AM If i am understanding this correctly, if it is hosted on a cloud and pre-verified by you, wouldn't people have to then download/transfer it off the cloud to have on their computer which would take up a relatively equal amount of time then if they were just to download it themselves?
Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: ranochigo on June 21, 2017, 04:28:51 AM If i am understanding this correctly, if it is hosted on a cloud and pre-verified by you, wouldn't people have to then download/transfer it off the cloud to have on their computer which would take up a relatively equal amount of time then if they were just to download it themselves? If they were to synchronize it themselves, it can take more time since the client also needs to verify each block individually.This helps the people who have weaker hardware and aren't willing to spend more time and resources for it to synchronize. Its unsafe to download the blockchain without verifying it yourself though. Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: blockoptions on June 26, 2017, 04:31:59 AM I paid someone $1 to get a link to download the whole blockchain on my EC2 server before. But the funny it's, it costs me a few hundred dollars to pay Amazon.
Title: Re: Blockchain download Post by: btctousd81 on June 29, 2017, 05:13:31 AM yes, yes please do share the torrent file.
edit: got it here., https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1310261.0 thanks |