Bootstrap.dat takes more than 10 hours to update the whole blockchain

[BitcoinLeader]

I am running bitcoind for the first time, mine is at 218590 blocks at the moment and it looks like its only getting 2 blocks per minute now.

Is it normal that bootstrap.dat (4.5gb) takes more than 10 hours to update the whole blockchain?

[HellDiverUK]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Abdussamad]

Ditch bitcoind/bitcoin-qt and grab electrum - electrum.org

10 hours is nothing. When I started with bitcoin about a month ago I too downloaded bitcoin-qt and it went on for days. It's just not usable for those of us on slow connections.

[BitcoinLeader]

Hi Abdussamad,

I  have read about electrum before but is it usable for a bitcoin payment gateway system?

Btw, I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours to process the whole blockchain.

[tahar]

Hi Abdussamad,

I  have read about electrum before but is it usable for a bitcoin payment gateway system?

Btw, I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours to process the whole blockchain.

Using 0.8 as a noob into this and can confirm this to be the case.

[Abdussamad]

Electrum is a client so it is not suitable for a payment gateway. For that you need bitcoind.

I too used 0.8.1 of Bitcoin-qt and it took a very long time to download the blockchain. Eventually I got tired of waiting and gave up on it.

The time it takes depends a lot on your connection speed. I only have a 1Mb/s connection so it was very slow for me.

[ISAWHIM]

You could just use an online account... no waiting, just start sending and receiving... (They even offer offline storage, so you have the same "protections", as long as you secure your data.)

It is only unsecured accounts that can be "taken". Secured accounts, if not backed-up, just get "lost"...

I imagine many of the blocks are just that... "lost" transactions, stuck in limbo... lol.

[Abdussamad]

You could just use an online account... no waiting, just start sending and receiving... (They even offer offline storage, so you have the same "protections", as long as you secure your data.)

It is only unsecured accounts that can be "taken". Secured accounts, if not backed-up, just get "lost"...

I imagine many of the blocks are just that... "lost" transactions, stuck in limbo... lol.

He needs a wallet to build a payment system based on BTC. So he needs a daemon like bitcoind.

[deepceleron]

I am running bitcoind for the first time, mine is at 218590 blocks at the moment and it looks like its only getting 2 blocks per minute now.

Is it normal that bootstrap.dat (4.5gb) takes more than 10 hours to update the whole blockchain?

Hi Abdussamad,

I  have read about electrum before but is it usable for a bitcoin payment gateway system?

Btw, I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours to process the whole blockchain.

The bootstrap.dat torrent includes blocks up to 216116, the complaint is about speed after this point.
The quotes above show the original poster already found out his problem is from not using the newest version of Bitcoin. No need to respond.

[Abdussamad]

I am running bitcoind for the first time, mine is at 218590 blocks at the moment and it looks like its only getting 2 blocks per minute now.

Is it normal that bootstrap.dat (4.5gb) takes more than 10 hours to update the whole blockchain?

Hi Abdussamad,

I  have read about electrum before but is it usable for a bitcoin payment gateway system?

Btw, I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours to process the whole blockchain.

The bootstrap.dat torrent includes blocks up to 216116, the complaint is about speed after this point.
The quotes above show the original poster already found out his problem is from not using the newest version of Bitcoin. No need to respond.

That is in theory. In practice there is a bug with the 0.8.0 version where only ~70K blocks are loaded from the bootstrap.dat file instead of 200k+. This is my experience and you can read about it on this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153120.0

[deepceleron]

That is in theory. In practice there is a bug with the 0.8.0 version where only ~70K blocks are loaded from the bootstrap.dat file instead of 200k+. This is my experience and you can read about it on this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153120.0

I assume you are responding to "I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours", since nothing I posted is in theory.

There is no bug in Bitcoin, anyone that has taken the time to actually file a bug report and follow up with testing after having such problems synchronizing the blockchain, it is determined that there are hardware problems with their computer causing inconsistent or unrepeatable errors.

[Abdussamad]

That is in theory. In practice there is a bug with the 0.8.0 version where only ~70K blocks are loaded from the bootstrap.dat file instead of 200k+. This is my experience and you can read about it on this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153120.0

I assume you are responding to "I found out that using the new version 0.8 it only takes a couple hours", since nothing I posted is in theory.

There is no bug in Bitcoin, anyone that has taken the time to actually file a bug report and follow up with testing after having such problems synchronizing the blockchain, it is determined that there are hardware problems with their computer causing inconsistent or unrepeatable errors.

The OP hasn't specified his internet connection speed so how can you compare his experience with mine? Maybe his connection is much faster.

Anyway there is nothing wrong with my computer. It is rock solid stable.

[xiaoyu_tang]

It only cost me longer than that. Now I hesitate to open the client. Maybe ripple is a good idea.