Hello im a noob, I have downloaded Bitcoin-qt wallet and bootstrap.dat torrent. I have placed bootstrap.dat in %appdata$/Bitcoin. The wallet doesnt recognize the file.. what do ?
hey johny, i advice you to let the client sync the blockchain by itself.. boosting the process isn't always a good option if you used unverified sources for the download of blockchain-data. bootstrap.dat btw allows your client to sync the initial blocks much faster (because from local storage...). but again, i prefer downloading the chain from the network and trusted random nodes.