Yes, it is annoying.
Other blockchain apps support multithreaded import or at least extra tools to import the blocks but since grain isn´t maintained by devs it took several days to import 2,210,000 blocks.
When the import is finished backup the data directory to have a "clean" blockchain ready to be synced up when bee7 will finally relaunch the coin.

I have synced too. Two full days with the bootstrap.dat  .

The irc isn´t reachable for me. Maybe because i am running a IPv6-Network with DS-Lite. The client says that the connection timed out.

I added 203.20.114.252 as a node in my config. It seems to work, but it seems that few blocks are missing.
I try to keep my client up. My Node Adress is: 2a02:908:8a5:729c:b039:dd19:6971:c3a8.
It would be nice if a checkpoint would be added at around the height of 2200000.

Is there any chance that the devs will come back and maintain this project or is this only time wasting to run the client?

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