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JompinDox (OP)
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August 12, 2012, 04:52:20 PM
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Many new users coming to bitcoin.org and proceeding to install the client
are quite upset when they find out the software needs hours / days to synchronize,
during which there is lots of hard disk thrashing and bandwidth eaten, and all
other tasks on their computer slow down to a crawl.

Really, is it too much to ask for a little informative notice on the download
page? Not everyone is a geek.

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August 12, 2012, 05:41:42 PM
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96141.msg1059816#msg1059816

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin
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August 12, 2012, 05:41:53 PM
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I agree.

I recently suffered through this.  I wish I would have been warned that I would need ten to fifteen hours before the software would become usable.

Running computers 24/7 in this heat is not an option.  It took me four consecutive nights to synchronize with the network.

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August 12, 2012, 06:20:46 PM
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Well, you can always use hybrid wallets like blockchain.info/wallet .

You don't need to leech the entire blockchain.
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