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most update one possible... torrents is appreciated, but direct download would be <3ed



anyway, not this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent/download
since it's uncompressed.
Thanks for any suggestion

why do you need it compressed? is bandwidth an issue?

Ah well there's a reason for that. An uncompressed torrent allows you to update to a new version of the of torrent from the point at which the previous version ends. So for example it used to 10GB and now it is 13GB. You want to switch to seeding the 13GB version you just have to download 3GB not the full 13GB. Something like that.

Anyway if can't download the uncompressed version use a thin client like Electrum.

Thanks for the info, I am looking forward for it.


Anyway, still looking for the compressed file.  :'(

you're likely not going to save much bandwidth by compressing it. I did a quick test with lmza2 and the compression ratio was only 67%

I am glad to know you don't have the problem to spare such bandwidth, but I do. Still any useful advice is highly appreciated.

Well let's see. I believe the download is 13GB? I think you'll need at least as much to compress it and 500MB-1GB for the OS. So please rent a VPS or cloud server with 30GB disk space, install rtorrent to download the uncompressed version. VPS have faster connections than home/office systems so the download should be done in a few hours. Compress the file and download it to your home/office system via http or ftp. If you can contribute by setting up a seedbox + torrent of the compressed version then that would be great too but obviously not required for your purposes.

You can find cheap VPS on lowendbox.com

Thanks for the suggested alternative, those who can afford it may have a solution in your suggestion... that's a really smart and reusable option. but I can't afford it actually  :(

If anyone knows a place where I can directly download the GZed blockchain, it would be greatly appreciated. <3

I don't know what your situation is but if you can't download it yourself why not put up a thread in the services forum seeking someone who will download it for you, burn it to a few DVDs or a USB stick and mail it to you? It should be safe to do this because the file's checksums are published online and bitcoin-qt does verify it as it imports blocks from it.

I am beginning to think someone has to make a stick post with all your solutions for the newbies good  ;)
Anyway; only viable solution for me actually is to connect everything at once.. then backup the whole folder: if I do someway manage to stay under internet bandwidth cap  :'(

i used to have a compressed file hosted on one of my servers, but i got tired of it being the target of DoS attacks over and over

I'll gzip & seed it for a price. I would do it for free, but, it's not free for me. Bandwidth costs money, so does thirty odd gigabytes worth of space.