Quick Sync could drastically increase the number of Bitcoin Nodes

[Ucy]

I saw on an online forum I belong to that you can Quick Sync their Cryptocurrency Blockchain by downloading the Blockchain separately from its Wallet. Here: https://deeponion.org/quicksync.html
I tried it and it took me less than 15mins to download and sync the Blockchain... It was super easy to do. It usually took me more than 5hrs to download the Wallet and fully sync the Blockchain.

So I was wondering why not try this on Bitcoin to help increase the number of nodes and keep Bitcoin secure.

Bitcoin Blockchain is about 165GB in size. Quick Sync could be developed and it would probably take people 1 to 5hrs to download & sych the Blockchain.
I see a situation where Enterprising people would load the Blockchain on external hard drives, increase the price of the Hardrives a bit and sell to people. Even PC manufacturers could include Blockchain in Laptops as bonus. In the end more people will run Bitcoin nodes and help keep Bitcoin secure.

[jackg]

There are probably already ways to do this with hard drives if you particularly wanted (I want to try this in a few weeks with bitcoin core to do a bit of tweaking to see if I can get stuff to work).

Instead of nodes, you'd need torrent seeders of the 150+GB blockchain which might make it faster but might also lead to bottlenecks on those torrents.

How big was the fast sync blockchain. It's worth noting that my normal laptop can download 40GB of the blockchain in about 20 Hours, considering yours does it in five from the network then that'd still be an hour and if your their blockchain was less than 2GB then it's not worth it (even if it's 4GB or less it's probably still not worth it).

EDIT: their blockchain is 400MB so it's no faster.

[Ucy]

There are probably already ways to do this with hard drives if you particularly wanted (I want to try this in a few weeks with bitcoin core to do a bit of tweaking to see if I can get stuff to work).

Instead of nodes, you'd need torrent seeders of the 150+GB blockchain which might make it faster but might also lead to bottlenecks on those torrents.

How big was the fast sync blockchain. It's worth noting that my normal laptop can download 40GB of the blockchain in about 20 Hours, considering yours does it in five from the network then that'd still be an hour and if your their blockchain was less than 2GB then it's not worth it (even if it's 4GB or less it's probably still not worth it).

EDIT: their blockchain is 400MB so it's no faster.

It's about 500MB.

The "Slow Sync" is designed to download via tor. I think the tor thing slows down the download speed alot.

[jackg]

It's about 500MB.

The "Slow Sync" is designed to download via tor. I think the tor thing slows down the download speed alot.

I've got a few MB/s from tor before - it is a bit slower than the 17-100mb/s I get normally (depending on the computer's speed), however, you don't really need tor to download it anyway - what are you trying to hide or keep safer here it's just a zip file download? There's no point in using it f you can get it on clearnnet as it will just slow down the tor network.

[jackg]

Bandwitch, blockchain size and connection type isn't the only things which determine sync speed. Even with TOR, download 500MB in 5 hours is too slow

Reread this topic.

It's 160+GB in 5 hours not 500MB, the 500MB was done in 15 minutes (which IMO is still way too long).