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It says my wallet will synchronize in 5 years and 30 weeks

Anybody got any tips on what to do during this time period?

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Well you have 0 (!) knowledge.
This is supposed to mean that you've just downloaded the block that was mined 5 years and 28 weeks ago, not that it will take that amount of time to sync.
Syncing should take around a day at most. You could also download the files from a torrent.

That is how far behind it is and not the time it will take to sync. Should be done with the sync in about a day or two depending on your connection.

Last I checked the blockchain file size was around 22GB.

Edit: You still seem to be new at this. Why not download a SPV wallet like Electrum for starters. There is no blockchain to download and you can be up and running in minutes. You can then later download the Bitcoin or Armory clients if you wish to have the whole blockchain on your pc.

Here, this helps: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0

It will sync shortly these are just the block dates. The blockchain download is slow when first starting the wallet because it has to download all past blockchain data.

Excuse you, I used this to mine not too long ago.

Unnecessarily nasty comment. Not everyone is a wealthy Bitcoin genius like yourself.

It takes over 1 day i find currently to sync a new wallet from scratch.  Im running a modern laptop and have fiber optic broadband.

lunch time?

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Yeah you could have understood it from "5 years and 28 weeks behind".

Fair play to apologise good Sir. I didn't realise that the OP had a history. I was more looking at it from the perspective of being a bit of a bitcoin noob, like myself, and it seemed a genuine question.

We have to remember that this forum, from what I have seen and read, consists of a complex variety some very clued up techies to complete beginners. Of which they all seem to vary from being extremely wealthy to those that are trying to scrap a few satoshis together each month, again like myself.

to be honest: like the others already wrote, it will not take that long. it may take 3-7 days (24hours). the good thing is, this problem will be solved. there is already a version in testing, where it does not take 3-7 days but only 3-4 hours. thats amazing!

I thought the validation of blocks takes most of the time... So more recent checkpoint can help reduce time even without much changes, but nice to see a lot of work is putting to this important feature (for new nodes)

This, it won't take you longer than a a few days to a full new node setup. This is just saying your 5.5 years behind on your blockdata, you can process several days worth of blocks quickly. It wont take you more than 3-5 Days on a slow connection

This was the genesis blocks timestamp ~ 5 Years ago  - "time":"2009-01-09T02:54:25Z"
Janurary 9th, 2009 was the first block

He knows how long it will take. Notice how he screen capped just that portion of the GUI. He's joking.

I wasn't offended

I thought that the OP worried about the block size by 2020, it will indeed become huge amount of data downloading by 2020, like several TB  :D

That is a valid cause of concern

Not for this full node member, uh uh. No way.

VPS with 3TBs ready to go! ;) (I'd have to take every other thing on it off though)

I bought 3 TB the other day for 130.- USD. How much do you think it will cost in 2020?

Two or three bucks maybe. Oh, and it will fit on the head of a pin.

Problem solved  ;D