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[turtlehurricane]

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[bitbets]

It's been a while since I downloaded the bitcoin wallet.
How long does it take to synch a new wallet now?

To be honest though, bitcoin hasn't ever forked and I never had to download a new wallet since long time,
and that is good because I think some people have troubles trying to get their coins from an old wallet into a new wallet.

[Meuh6879]

because you have a very low PC.



netbook, especially ... instead of recreate the blockchain in 2-3 days (continuous working) ... do this in ... 1 week.


connection is not the point.
Hard drive and CPU are the point.

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actually, you need less than 24h to download the 40Go of blockchain ... and 1-2 days for recreate the blockchain (CPU and Hard Drive).

[abcdave]

Don't use bitcoin qt then. I agree it is a bit of a ballache for new users but I don't really think there's any need to use it with all the lite clients we have nowadays. Get one of them or a blockchain.info wallet and you're good to go immediately.

[Meuh6879]

No my laptop is high quality. If you actually read the post you would see that Bitcoin QT has stopped synchronizing for me, it is not making any progress, not even 1 block more.

open the CPU/Hard drive activity to see if you are in 100% ... of using power.

[achow101]

try reinstalling Bitcoin Core. Also, post your Debug.log here. In my experience, Bitcoin Core is very easy to use, it just takes a while to download and sync everything.

This should be moved to the Technical Support forum.

[Meuh6879]

uninstall the antivirus software.

less than 1 hour to synchronise a new v0.10.2 bitcoin core on a delocalized server :

Server Xeon E3 1230v2    16 Go    2 x 1 To    1Gbit/sec LAN DSL

[gloug333]

It's been a while since I downloaded the bitcoin wallet.
How long does it take to synch a new wallet now?

it took me a week to get tired, bored and impatient with it being downloaded with a slow net connection. Been using one of the smaller wallets "that doesn't need a month's wait".

[Trouble821]

I've decided to give 0.045 BTC to the person who gives me the info I need to get my wallet working.

Have you tried restarting it using the -reindex -rescan flags?

You make a shortcut to the qt .exe file, then right click the shortcut and select properties from the list shown.  Add this to the end of the text shown in the target field.

 -reindex -rescan

Be sure to include a space between the original text in the field and -reindex -rescan

Double click the shortcut to start your bitcoin wallet using the -reindex -rescan flags

[ajareselde]

@OP download blockchain via torrent, and then sync it up to date. Had the same problem before, thats how it worked for me.
just copy sontent of torrent to @winpartition/users/appdata/roaming/bitcoin

update us with progress
cheers

[achow101]

I actually did that yesterday, downloaded the 21 GB torrent and put it in that folder. For some reason Bitcoin QT keeps renaming it as bootstrap.dat.old, which makes me think it's not using it.

It does that once it is done using it. The bootstrap file is not up to date with the rest of the network. It is in fact quite behind it. If you are using the latest version of Bitcoin Core, the bootstrap.dat file is not necessary.

It would help us diagnose the issue if you could post your debug.log.

[achow101]

The problem here is that it seems that Core thinks that all of the nodes that it has connected are misbehaving. It calculated their banscore, and that is greater than the threshold set, so it automatically disconnects. It looks like it might not be connecting to any nodes because of this. Open help > debug window and tell us what you see next to "Number of connections" I think it is stuck at 28 weeks because that was the most recent block that the bootstrap.dat file had.

[achow101]

What is your node's ip? I'm going to try to connect to you. Also see if your node is connected to the network by checking getaddr.bitnodes.io

[BillyBobZorton]

Bitcoin Core (formerly QT) wasn't designed as the ultimate user friendly wallet.. thats why noobs shouldn't run Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Core should only be run by those that want to support the network and understand the requeriments (HD space and a powerful computer). Sadly I wish Bitcoin Core as less sys requeriment intensive so it could be run in any cheap laptop.
I still use it because im so used to it and im basicaly lazy to move my funds to any other wallet.
I also find more secure a wallet.dat file encrypted than a Brain wallet for example. I wish I could trust brain wallets but im too paranoid lol.

[Meuh6879]

Ok I think I figured it out, the firewall is probably blocking any incoming connections.

remove QoS strategy ... if you can.

[Meuh6879]

Ok I think I figured it out, the firewall is probably blocking any incoming connections. Mcafee (which I never wanted) controls the windows firewall. I can't even view the mcafee settings since my trial expired, what a piece of shit 

So maybe bitcoin qt isnt that bad afterall, I'll update if it works after removing firewall.

uninstall the antivirus software.

[manselr]

Bitcoin Core (formerly QT) wasn't designed as the ultimate user friendly wallet.. thats why noobs shouldn't run Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Core should only be run by those that want to support the network and understand the requeriments (HD space and a powerful computer). Sadly I wish Bitcoin Core as less sys requeriment intensive so it could be run in any cheap laptop.
I still use it because im so used to it and im basicaly lazy to move my funds to any other wallet.
I also find more secure a wallet.dat file encrypted than a Brain wallet for example. I wish I could trust brain wallets but im too paranoid lol.

Not only it is CPU and RAM and HDD intensive, the problem is a lot of people have problems downloading the blockchain. For example me. For some reason the download is super slow and takes ages to get green lines on the peers thing. I have bitcoin-qt whitelisted on my firewall.. dunno. It takes fucking ages to download. I can't imagine being a noob and trying to download the whole blockchain in 2015.

Is Bitcoin XT any better in this aspect?

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Bitcoin Core was the first wallet that I ever used/downloaded, I still have it but only use it for change really & the signature campaign that I am in, the entirety of my main stash is in cold storage.
I initially used Core because back then as a total noob I wanted to use the 'official product', basically just wanted to be safe & not get scammed.
It takes way too long to download & even now when I catch up on a weeks worth of blocks or something it often gets stuck on e.g. '12 hours to go' for ages so I have to close it down & start it back up again to kick it back into action.
If I started again as a noob today with more knowledge I wouldn't bother downloading the whole blockchain with Core.

[Meuh6879]

I can't imagine being a noob and trying to download the whole blockchain in 2015.

have you try since 56% of Bitcoin network have move to the v0.10.x branch ... ?  
you may have a little surprise to see that only CPU and Hard Drive slow down ... the download process (ORPHAN identification, to be precise).

[randy8777]

Bitcoin Core was the first wallet that I ever used/downloaded, I still have it but only use it for change really & the signature campaign that I am in, the entirety of my main stash is in cold storage.
I initially used Core because back then as a total noob I wanted to use the 'official product', basically just wanted to be safe & not get scammed.
It takes way too long to download & even now when I catch up on a weeks worth of blocks or something it often gets stuck on e.g. '12 hours to go' for ages so I have to close it down & start it back up again to kick it back into action.
If I started again as a noob today with more knowledge I wouldn't bother downloading the whole blockchain with Core.

there are other light weight wallets better suited for you if you don't like having the entire blockchain on your computer. but newbies don't know that unfortunately. they don't know what the difference is and complain about bitcoin core being very slow.