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Title: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: Jet Cash on August 04, 2016, 05:06:29 AM It seems to be taking longer that the blockchain download. With hindsight, I should have used one of my blockchain backups, and rebuilt from that. I'm not sure what caused the initial problem, but I suspect it was related to my using Windows 10, and it's constant messing with my setup. I hope to be more serious about my use of Bitcoin soon, and I believe that I will need to use a Linux based machine for that.
Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: Amadues on August 11, 2016, 07:47:13 PM It seems to be taking longer that the blockchain download. With hindsight, I should have used one of my blockchain backups, and rebuilt from that. I'm not sure what caused the initial problem, but I suspect it was related to my using Windows 10, and it's constant messing with my setup. I hope to be more serious about my use of Bitcoin soon, and I believe that I will need to use a Linux based machine for that. What version of bitcoin core are you using? You can switch to a "light" wallet like electrum, easy to use and trusted, or multibit HD . Both are valid solution and you don't need to spend a lot of time "waiting" a download :D Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: MyBTT on August 12, 2016, 03:22:21 AM It shouldn't take longer, IIRC. But while you're waiting, use a lighter wallet, as suggested above.
Tbh it's time to move from core to another wallet. Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: Jet Cash on August 13, 2016, 08:54:40 AM Well it's finished. It took about a month using free public WiFi intermittently.
I don't want to use a light or pruned wallet. I believe in Bitcoin as a payment system, and I want to run a full node to help maintain the system into the future. What I will have to do is to take it away from Windows 10, and use a Linux based system. At the moment, I'm a pretty low activity user, as I'm finding it difficult to persuade other people to support Bitcoin. Hopefully that will change in the not too distant future. Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: DannyHamilton on August 13, 2016, 03:05:13 PM Well it's finished. It took about a month using free public WiFi intermittently. - snip - Perhaps consider creating a backup of your bitcoin data directory on a monthly basis. That way if you ever need (or want) to re-synchronize again, you'll only need to catch up the most recent month instead of 8 or more years. Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: unholycactus on August 13, 2016, 03:11:56 PM Well it's finished. It took about a month using free public WiFi intermittently. I don't want to use a light or pruned wallet. I believe in Bitcoin as a payment system, and I want to run a full node to help maintain the system into the future. What I will have to do is to take it away from Windows 10, and use a Linux based system. At the moment, I'm a pretty low activity user, as I'm finding it difficult to persuade other people to support Bitcoin. Hopefully that will change in the not too distant future. Is there limitations to your own bandwidth? Why would you download the blockchain on a public WiFi? I admire your will to run a full node and I hope the trouble is worth it for you. As far as I know, windows 10 might not even be the problem. Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: DannyHamilton on August 13, 2016, 03:35:47 PM - snip - Is there limitations to your own bandwidth? Why would you download the blockchain on a public WiFi? - snip - According to the first post he ever made on this forum: - snip - At the moment, I'm researching the difficulties in using computers in a mobile lifestyle in England. - snip - I bought an HP notebook running Windows 10, and I'm setting up a Bitcoin wallet on that. - snip - Updating the blockchain using public WiFi is quite an experience - snip - Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: LFC_Bitcoin on August 16, 2016, 04:18:07 PM Well it's finished. It took about a month using free public WiFi intermittently. I don't want to use a light or pruned wallet. I believe in Bitcoin as a payment system, and I want to run a full node to help maintain the system into the future. What I will have to do is to take it away from Windows 10, and use a Linux based system. At the moment, I'm a pretty low activity user, as I'm finding it difficult to persuade other people to support Bitcoin. Hopefully that will change in the not too distant future. A month, shit man you are a patient guy. Not long back I left my laptop on & forgot to keep it charging. Core was up & running so obviously it didn't close down properly. It had to 're-index' & seemed to take forever, about 4 days of basically being on for 24 hours a day. Absolute nightmare, make sure you make regular back ups of your wallet. I do now & if that ever happens again it'll save me a hell of a lot of time. Edit - I don't think the above issue I had happens any more on version 0.12.1 - don't quote me on it though. Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: Tacalt on August 16, 2016, 04:32:32 PM Well it's finished. It took about a month using free public WiFi intermittently. I don't want to use a light or pruned wallet. I believe in Bitcoin as a payment system, and I want to run a full node to help maintain the system into the future. What I will have to do is to take it away from Windows 10, and use a Linux based system. At the moment, I'm a pretty low activity user, as I'm finding it difficult to persuade other people to support Bitcoin. Hopefully that will change in the not too distant future. A month, shit man you are a patient guy. Not long back I left my laptop on & forgot to keep it charging. Core was up & running so obviously it didn't close down properly. It had to 're-index' & seemed to take forever, about 4 days of basically being on for 24 hours a day. Absolute nightmare, make sure you make regular back ups of your wallet. I do now & if that ever happens again it'll save me a hell of a lot of time. Edit - I don't think the above issue I had happens any more on version 0.12.1 - don't quote me on it though. Lol for real. I think OP should consider just using a light wallet given his circumstances and donating towards charities in Bitcoin as a way of supporting Bitcoin and showing/encouraging others to use Bitcoin for non-malicious purposes. Title: Re: I made a mistake by re-synchronising Post by: CrazyCraig on August 16, 2016, 05:12:19 PM It seems to be taking longer that the blockchain download. With hindsight, I should have used one of my blockchain backups, and rebuilt from that. I'm not sure what caused the initial problem, but I suspect it was related to my using Windows 10, and it's constant messing with my setup. I hope to be more serious about my use of Bitcoin soon, and I believe that I will need to use a Linux based machine for that. Recently indexed the blockchain on a new server provision. It took 8 hours with 128GB of ram and 12 cores. In comparison, it took 4 days with 1gb of ram and 1 core. Its getting ridiculous. Try storing some of the index in memory to alleviate stress on the CPU. |