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Title: which ones best bootstrap.dat or Raw format of blockchain Post by: vm1990 on September 09, 2014, 10:49:45 PM im wondering which people would prefer a bootstrap.dat or my preferred choice a complete file with everything minus wallet.dat that can simply be copied over and rescanned.
for bitcoin core Title: Re: which ones best bootstrap.dat or Raw format of blockchain Post by: deepceleron on September 10, 2014, 02:16:47 AM You can move blockchain files between your own Bitcoin installations, but they cannot be trusted if obtained from anonymous sources, as anything could be inserted without verification. Importation of the bootstrap file verifies the block contents the same way downloading it normally would.
Title: Re: which ones best bootstrap.dat or Raw format of blockchain Post by: Dare on September 14, 2014, 07:51:13 PM You can move blockchain files between your own Bitcoin installations, but they cannot be trusted if obtained from anonymous sources, as anything could be inserted without verification. Importation of the bootstrap file verifies the block contents the same way downloading it normally would. In addition to this, the only other benefit you'd get from cloning the bitcoin directory is the chainstate folder, which is normally built as the blockchain downloads or is imported and verifies. Aside from that, the wallet file obviously can't be copied, the config file is generally different by machine if used at all, and the peers file is quickly and silently rebuilt so it doesn't really matter. |