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Hi! Many users have problems opening a Bitcoin Node due to block synchronization errors. I ask you to help us, anyone who has a copy of the Bitcoin Core folder, except for the wallet.dat file with a fully synchronized blockchain, uploaded to Facebook, can you share the link?

Why don't you just let the Bitcoin core download the whole blockchain?
Manual download of the Bitcoin blockchain from other sources is no longer available and it is no longer suggested to download manually. There is a big risk and possible file corruption.

If your problem is the syncing and it's downloading very slow then to improve it you need to increase ram memory and switch to SSD there is a big improvement in your Bitcoin and it speeding up the syncing process.

The spirit of bitcoin is to verify not to trust.

Downloading the blockchain (and other related files like chainstate) from a centralized source means you are giving up that verify step and that makes running a full node pointless. In other words it is better if you use a SPV client instead.

Additionally downloading it from a centralized source then verifying the file from block #1 is going to be slower than just letting bitcoin core download and verify blocks on its own. Which is another reason for not doing that.

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If you are facing problems syncing, you should find the root cause of that problem and try to fix that instead of looking for a workaround.

Thank you!

What kind of problem do you have? Is it just the time? I strongly recommend you to be patient. There's absolutely no reason to blindly accept the current block height with a chainstate you cannot verify, and just begin verifying afterwards. It's pointless to verify blocks if there's at least 1 you took someone word for it instead of verifying.

Well, You saying this for over a month now. Right? Whenever anyone asks you about your problem, You just say give me a copy of blockdata and upload them on Facebook which is not possible.

After someone suggested you this; (I know data dumps not for this purpose)

And You answered;

Why do you asking forum people to upload block data on Facebook and give you the download link? Would you trust others while you do not trust the most trusted LoyceV?

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Don't waste your time. Check his feedback page. He is just a troll wasting people's time and coming up with bullshit arguments. You won't be able to fix his problem. He said it's not synchronizing. It depends on System power (Ram/CPU/SSD Speed). So, if he waits for a few minutes and expects it to synchronize. It's not possible.

The problem is that Bitcoin Core just hangs and nothing happens, synchronization stops completely, nothing works. I don't think that this is due to system requirements, because many 1,000-s of blocks are synchronized with absolutely no problems, and only then problems begin on some block, everything stops and nothing happens, so this is a system error. That's why I ask for this folder with more than 400 GB of data uploaded to Facebook because data is instantly loaded from it because any other site can have a bandwidth problem

Just read that. Thanks. I had no idea.

I can't help, and neither others can if you don't provide us some error message or just the whole debug.log itself.

This not the way to go. If you have a problem with syncing the network, blindly accepting the blockchain is not an option to resolve your issue. What makes you think it won't do the same 10 minutes after you're fully synced?

If you download this 400 GB folder completely from Facebook, then the Bitcoin Core.exe file will immediately start working, because it takes all the data from this folder

No.

Suppose you want to make it synchronized. Please give us more information about your problem. I had the same issue as yours, and I let it do whatever it wanted. After a while, it started synchronizing again. According to you, You are on windows. Make sure to check peer tabs. There will be ten connections (8 of them will be Full Relay). Check the Network traffic tab and make sure it's downloading/uploading data. Also, Check the bedug.txt file from the backup folder. Open the file and Scroll down. Take a screenshot and post it here so everyone can see and help if something is wrong.

Unfortunately I can't provide you with any screenshot as I deleted this whole folder and the Bitcoin Core app because I ran into these difficulties.
It seems that no one wants and will not help us :'(

This is probably the OP's last ditch effort to earn a single merit.  He is under the impression that only people who've earned merit will be given non-collateralized loans, which he's been desperately trying to obtain for about six months now.  This guy is nothing but a common troll, trying to scam pennies to compensate for the shitty accounts he was suckered into buying.

You are wrong again. I created this topic in response to the fact that all my posts in his topic are deleted (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364742.0) by n0nce (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3373858)

Impossible.  n0nce isn't a moderator, and that thread to which you linked is not self-moderated.  Only moderators can delete posts in that thread, and they would only do so if your posts are off-topic...

Or... 

wait for it...

TROLLING!

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Now back to our regularly scheduled programming:

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Even if you find someone or a source where to download the whole blockchain it won't just work immediately because it still needs to reindex it takes time and there is a possibility it will turn into the corrupted blockchain.
That is why no one will give you a link or someone share this 400GB blockchain it took long to upload and the chances are very small that someone will upload it because no site will give you a free upload with 400Gb(mostly 2Gb limit) except for p2p like torrent. But the problem with torrents is that you will get lots of viruses which is why it is not a good option.

Or if you need it right away you can buy Apollo that it has a full node the good thing is that you can also mine on that unit. Another full node provider is keys.casa they also have casa node.

When a PC with an installed and fully synchronized blockchain turned off and turned on again, does it start indexing blocks for a long time?

Yes, it does when it wasn't closed gracefully. You are looking for 460 GB of files from the internet. After you download all the blocks, you still need to reindex them, which will take a long time. Depends on your system. This is not a problem. But what if there is a virus if it was compressed within a zip file? What if you unzip and some malware is installed on your device? Instead, Run the Bitcoin core and let it download the blocks. I spend over a month and a half just downloading the blocks.

Blockchain already weighs 460 GB? It turns out it will not fit on a 465 GB HDD? Is there any compression? Can built-in HDD data compression help me?

Yeah. According to the ycharts (https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_blockchain_size). The Bitcoin Block size is 429 GB as of 30th September. But, As you can see from the screenshot below, My backup folder is already 459 GB.

https://i.postimg.cc/V6Mm4pWZ/photo-2022-10-01-19-02-53.jpg

Whatever, Why do you want to know those things? According to you, You already uninstalled Bitcoin core and deleted all the files.

There's no point in compressing 450+GB of blocks, it will take forever to compress and decompress all that data. Just buy a larger HDD.

This would help other users to quickly launch their Bitcoin Node without spending several weeks on it, but by coping with it in a few tens of hours

I believe other users care about their security. They won't download 460 GB of Data from unknown sources. If they want to Run a Full node, they will spend their time downloading the entire blockchain. People with good internet connections could download the whole blockchain within two days. Don't think for others. Oil your own machine.

Suggest to others: Please don't waste your time here unless you have spare time. OP had some issues over a month ago, and now he doesn't even have Bitcoin core installed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415430.msg61038627#msg61038627). He was trying to gather information for other users to quickly launch their Bitcoin Node.