where can i download the blockchain?

[betatest512]

on http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/ the blockchain's .dat file's are there but the blkindex.dat file is not there

and i want one for windows

is there a place from where i can download the blockchain through the browser

[Revalin]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/

Also, 7zip can open .tar files on Windows.

[betatest512]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/

Also, 7zip can open .tar files on Windows.

that is very old is there any site that host's like this week's data

[Revalin]

Sure, http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/

Get yourself a copy of 7zip. 

Or just fire up the client and let it download it for you.

[betatest512]

Sure, http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/

Get yourself a copy of 7zip. 

Or just fire up the client and let it download it for you.

yes i downloaded it from here and unpacked from 7-zip but it does not have blkindex.dat file

[Stephen Gornick]

yes i downloaded it from here and unpacked from 7-zip but it does not have blkindex.dat file

You can extract the two blk*.dat  files to a temporary folder and then use
  bitcoin-qt -loadblock=FILE
to have it load the blockchain data from the local file rather than from the network.  It still goes through the verification for each transaction so the advantage over a normal P2P network download is that the client is never waiting on a new block.  But it does go faster.

[betatest512]

yes i downloaded it from here and unpacked from 7-zip but it does not have blkindex.dat file

You can extract the two blk*.dat  files to a temporary folder and then use
  bitcoin-qt -loadblock=FILE
to have it load the blockchain data from the local file rather than from the network.  It still goes through the verification for each transaction so the advantage over a normal P2P network download is that the client is never waiting on a new block.  But it does go faster.

when i use bitcoin-qt -loadblock=FILE what should i put in the place of FILE slould i put blk00001.dat or blk00002.dat file?

[Stephen Gornick]

when i use bitcoin-qt -loadblock=FILE what should i put in the place of FILE slould i put blk00001.dat or blk00002.dat file?

=blk0001.dat   or ="C:\temp\blk0001.dat"     (if you need to specify the path).

I think it is smart enough to roll over and pull the 0002.dat automatically.  [Edit: It appears I was mistaken there. When it has completed with the first data file it will launch the GUI and then download.  You can then close the client and launch it again using the -loadblock=blk0002.dat to grab blocks that file as well.]

[Pieter Wuille]

If you want to import both, use -loadblock=blk0001.dat -loadblock=blk0002.dat (in that order).

For 0.8 there may be a -reindex coming up, which will recreate blkindex.dat from existing blk* files.

[deepceleron]

I've got a copy available in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51456.0, it's from July 15, but if you are expecting payments or have recent payments that haven't yet been received into your wallet, you don't want to substitute a too-new blockchain, you want to download recent blocks yourself and process them normally.

[MysteryMiner]

where can i download the blockchain?

Where I can find the ultimate truth and happiness?

[betatest512]

where can i download the blockchain?

Where I can find the ultimate truth and happiness?

NOT IN THIS EARTH

[kjj]

Look here.