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Database compressor daemon: Open Source Blockchain Packer
Current version 0.3b

Bitcoin database compressor daemon  is a free, open source, light-weight and high-performance blockchain packer for Windows.
You can compress\decompress your blockchain database in background mode and decrease the size of the bitcoin database on hard drive.

Features:
      - High compression ratio with LZMA compression algorithm (uncompressed blockchain ~20 Gb\ compressed blockchain ~6 Gb);
      - Daemon working as a system service in background mode (need administrative privileges);
      - Simple usage. Install application, select blockchain directory, select bitcoin client directory, wait until base compressed;
      - Free for both commercial and non-commercial use.
      
Source code on Github (will be upload after final release): https://github.com/bt-software/compressor-daemon
Part of the code from LZMA SDK: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/LZMA%20SDK/


Tested on WinXP, Vista, Win7 and Win8 (32 and 64 bit version).
Please, if you find any bugs post it in current thread (select OS version).

Download (beta release):  https://github.com/bt-software/compressor-daemon/releases/download/v0.3-beta/v0.3b.zip (https://github.com/bt-software/compressor-daemon/releases/download/v0.3-beta/v0.3b.zip)

Fixed some problem with Bitcoin client.

Current version v0.3b

Please be very cautious with installing these kinds of software! If things look too good to be true... (and its closed source).

any screen shots from your working mode pc ?

This software is an open-source software, the source code will be opened after the project comes out of beta testing. In the future, I'm going to ask the developers to the official Bitcoin client that they turn my project in the composition of its client.

My virus software flagged this as a trojan.