bootstrap.dat

[bc0000]

Hello.  I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent.  I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it.  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

[cr1776]

Hello.  I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent.  I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it.  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

If you are running 0.10.2*, you shouldn't need bootstrap.dat.  In all likelihood using it would be slower than not using it.



(*Any of the 0.10.x versions)

[OmegaStarScream]

Hello.  I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent.  I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it.  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

Indeed , seems like it got removed from Bitcoin Core page on the Bitcoin.org not sure why though .
with some searching I managed to find this link for you : http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/bootstrap.dat.torrent
Source of link : http://www.bitcoin-en.com/install-bitcoin-qt-faster.html

also here , there is the magnet link : https://bitcoin.org/bin/block-chain/bootstrap.txt

[cr1776]

Hello.  I'm having a hard time finding the bootstrap.dat torrent.  I could have thought I saw it on the git before - but now I don't locate it.  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

Indeed , seems like it got removed from Bitcoin Core page on the Bitcoin.org not sure why though .
with some searching I managed to find this link for you : http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/bootstrap.dat.torrent
Source of link : http://www.bitcoin-en.com/install-bitcoin-qt-faster.html

also here , there is the magnet link : https://bitcoin.org/bin/block-chain/bootstrap.txt

It got removed because it is no longer recommended for current bitcoin core versions.

They don't say what version they are running, of course.

[achow101]

The bootstrap is no longer necessary. It will actually take longer with the bootstrap since you still need to download all 20-30 Gb of it. The new headers-first synchronization with 0.10+ will sync faster and shifts a lot of the bottleneck to your cpu since the node needs to process and index all of the blocks.