**Download the blockchain here, updated regularly **

[Mad7Scientist]

   It looks like there was a problem with my Gnutella share. Apparently Comcast blocks most of the Gnutella network functions except for downloading. They do the same thing with Bittorrent to a lesser extent. Also, the urn:sha1 I had hash was wrong, it would have taken you to my litecoin blockchain archive instead. But now those problems should be fixed.

@NeonFlash,
   I don't have a blockchain for Bitcoin Cash, but the 100GB rar file will take you to the beginning of July 2017, before the fork. You might be able to use command line parameters to instruct Bitcoin Cash to search back farther in the blockchain to invalidate all the non forked blocks.
   If you reindex the whole thing, it will take a couple days minimum for most people who have >4GB of RAM and a mechanical hard drive. Downloading and indexing at the same time wouldn't take much longer, and If download speeds are slow, then it would be faster.

[PatrickMacH]

Bitcoin Blockchain Download [bootstrap.dat]

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block date:     Th. 24 Aug. 2017 19:45:40
block number:   #481900
file name:      bootstrap.dat.xz
file size:      ~85 GB [86,232 MB]
file format:    compressed xz (containing bootstrap.dat)
uncompressed:   ~126 GB

Indexed with Bitcoin Core v0.14.2 on Linux (4.4.0 x64) platform.

What's new
The compression format has been updated to xz which allows the decompression of the bootstrap.dat file while downloading it. If you are an expert you can use system pipes to inject the highly compressed serialized Bitcoin blockchain bootstrap.dat to the Bitcoin Core initial blockchain loadup process.

Setup
Move the decompressed bootstrap.dat into your Bitcoin-Qt application folder and (re)start your Bitcoin-Qt client:

• Unix/Linux: ~/.bitcoin
• MAC OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
• Windows: [User Directory]AppDataRoamingBitcoin (i.e. C:UsersMyUsernameAppDataRoamingBitcoin

If you don't know how it works you can check the details on the download page.
Beware that after decompressing the XY file, you need additional ~140 GB to import the bootstrap file!


Download
--- https://goo.gl/gdHA8S ---

Hint
This is a private hosted download. To scope the hosting costs the download page requires a donation of whatever amount is suitable for you.

[PatrickMacH]

Is it possible to get a copy of the Bitcoin Blockchain prior to Hard Fork. Something like synchronized upto July 2017 only and not after. I'm asking for this because after hard fork on August 1st, the Bitcoin Blockchain is not compatible with Bitcoin Cash Blockchain. However, if we can get the latest snapshot of Blockchain prior to hard fork, then it can be re-used with Bitcoin ABC wallet and only the blocks after hard fork would need to be downloaded.

Bitcoin Blockchain Download [bootstrap.dat] (before Bitcoin Cash netsplit)

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block date:     Sa. 29 Jul. 2017 09:31:58
block number:   #478100
file name:      bootstrap.dat.xz
file size:      ~82 GB [83,729 MB]
file format:    compressed xz (containing bootstrap.dat)
uncompressed:   ~123 GB

Indexed with Bitcoin Core v0.14.2 on Linux (4.4.0 x64) platform.

What's new
The compression format has been updated to xz which allows the decompression of the bootstrap.dat file while downloading it. If you are an expert you can use system pipes to inject the highly compressed serialized Bitcoin blockchain bootstrap.dat to the Bitcoin Core initial blockchain loadup process.

Setup
Move the decompressed bootstrap.dat into your Bitcoin-Qt application folder and (re)start your Bitcoin-Qt client:

• Unix/Linux: ~/.bitcoin
• MAC OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
• Windows: [User Directory]AppDataRoamingBitcoin (i.e. C:UsersMyUsernameAppDataRoamingBitcoin

If you don't know how it works you can check the details on the download page.
Beware that after decompressing the XY file, you need additional ~140 GB to import the bootstrap file!


Download
--- https://goo.gl/izWq2z ---

Hint
This is a private hosted download. To scope the hosting costs the download page requires a donation of whatever amount is suitable for you.

[Mad7Scientist]

It would be nice if someone could download the 100GB file ( urn:sha1:WTJUONO2Y53SAK3ID3YCD3JYX7LLYHYC
) on Gnutella and help share it. It looks like there have been a couple of attemps to download it but people may have given up because it was slower than expected. At 1MB/sec it's only a bit over a day.

[PatrickMacH]

Bitcoin Blockchain Download [bootstrap.dat]

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block date:     Mo. 11 Sep. 2017 17:24:37
block number:   #484700
file name:      bootstrap.dat.xz
file size:      ~86 GB [87,997 MB]
file format:    compressed xz (containing bootstrap.dat)
uncompressed:   ~126 GB

Indexed with Bitcoin Core v0.14.2 on Linux (4.4.0 x64) platform.

What's new
The compression format has been updated to xz which allows the decompression of the bootstrap.dat file while downloading it. If you are an expert you can use system pipes to inject the highly compressed serialized Bitcoin blockchain bootstrap.dat to the Bitcoin Core initial blockchain loadup process.

Setup
Move the decompressed bootstrap.dat into your Bitcoin-Qt application folder and (re)start your Bitcoin-Qt client:

• Unix/Linux: ~/.bitcoin
• MAC OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
• Windows: [User Directory]AppDataRoamingBitcoin (i.e. C:UsersMyUsernameAppDataRoamingBitcoin

If you don't know how it works you can check the details on the download page.
Beware that after decompressing the XY file, you need additional ~140 GB to import the bootstrap file!


Download
--- https://goo.gl/gdHA8S ---

Hint
This is a private hosted download. To scope the hosting costs the download page requires a donation of whatever amount is suitable for you.

[Relaqs]

Hi, save to use torrend? https://getbitcoin[Suspicious link removed]/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1930218.0

Thx

[Flomo]

thanks friends, it's all very helpful and can be as a reference to get information about cryptocurrency.

[domd]

The updated (10/2017) Bitcoin bootstrap.7z zip file for Windows can be downloaded from this link as torrent:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1103WjvVqiQ00NZA8G9F58lSHECy8p1vo

[dificanovi]

thanks with the information, I am interested in the application for wallet that I can download, but after I download, I better understand the ones that I open in my search google.

[domd]

The updated (11/2017) Bitcoin bootstrap.7z zip file for Windows can be downloaded from this link as torrent:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3nEieUx-XUgZTZDUVF2M0QzQkE/view?usp=sharing

[elixirsc]

The updated (10/2017) Bitcoin bootstrap.7z zip file for Windows can be downloaded from this link as torrent:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3nEieUx-XUgZTZDUVF2M0QzQkE/view?usp=sharing

Can someone tell the what the password is ? Thank you!

[Spendulus]

Why should someone download your files? How would he know they were completely safe and free of viruses, trojans etc.

Thank you for answering this question.

[Mad7Scientist]

You don't. If it's bootstrap.dat then it's the same data that bitcoin gets from other nodes so it doesn't matter if it's trustworthy or not. It can take a few days to index that regardless of if it comes from the file or the normal way.

I have a summer 2017 blockchain shared on Gnutella which is already indexed, so it would matter that the source is trustworthy for that. IF you just want to play around with bitcoin or BCC with small amounts then it isn't so important. The file that I mentioned earlier may not always be available since Comcast is blocking Gnutella.

It would take a fair bit of know how to make a malicious blockchain so I doubt anyone would do it unless these blockchain downloading services got popular. From what I can tell there isn't much interest in downloading bootstrap.dat or a pre indexed blockchain. I had my indexed blockchain directly downloadable for a time and I only got a couple hits a week and that was free of charge!

[2112]

From what I can tell there isn't much interest in downloading bootstrap.dat or a pre indexed blockchain. I had my indexed blockchain directly downloadable for a time and I only got a couple hits a week and that was free of charge!

The lack of interest you observing is probably related to your choice of protocol (GNUtella). Bittorrent is way more popular and I could nearly always seen somebody downloading the torrents that are published in various threads here. Currently there are about six leechers in the swarm. I never bothered to keep accurate statistics, but I would estimate that my old computer would push around 1TB (terabyte) per month in various Bitcoin torrent throughout this year. My statistics are very approximate because that old machine also seeds other things, but Bitcoin torrents are by far the biggest and nearly constantly active.

[PatrickMacH]

Bitcoin Blockchain Download [bootstrap.dat]

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block date:     Tue 24 Oct. 2017 00:19:48
block number:   #491400
file name:      bootstrap.dat.xz
file size:      ~90 GB [92,091 MB]
file format:    compressed xz (containing bootstrap.dat)
uncompressed:   ~130 GB

Indexed with Bitcoin Core v0.15.1 on Linux (4.4.0 x64) platform.

What's new
The compression format has been updated to xz which allows the decompression of the bootstrap.dat file while downloading it. If you are an expert you can use system pipes to inject the highly compressed serialized Bitcoin blockchain bootstrap.dat to the Bitcoin Core initial blockchain loadup process.

Setup
Move the decompressed bootstrap.dat into your Bitcoin-Qt application folder and (re)start your Bitcoin-Qt client:

• Unix/Linux: ~/.bitcoin
• MAC OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
• Windows: [User Directory]AppDataRoamingBitcoin (i.e. C:UsersMyUsernameAppDataRoamingBitcoin

If you don't know how it works you can check the details on the download page.
Beware that after decompressing the XY file, you need additional ~140 GB to import the bootstrap file!


Download
--- https://goo.gl/gdHA8S ---

Hint
This is a private hosted download. To scope the hosting costs the download page requires a donation of whatever amount is suitable for you.

[domd]

The updated (11/2017) Bitcoin bootstrap.7z zip file for Windows can be downloaded from this link as torrent:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3nEieUx-XUgZTZDUVF2M0QzQkE/view?usp=sharing

[brakmic]

Instead of mandatory payments for password-protected files, like in the examples above, better simply download one for free here: getbitcoinblockchain . com

Fresh blockchain + daily update torrents. Just unpack the contents from the first, bigger blockchain-directory to .bitcoin and then merge it with the updates from the second torrent.

I'm running my node on a raspberry pi 3  

But you should send a tip to the website maintainer.  

[joe5591]

Re:- Blockchain download post #138

I made a donation by CC yesterday to get the download but no link was provided. Worse, the comments service is not working so as to send a message to "flo". You just get a 403 error or "Captcha timed out". Perhaps he/she doesn't know the service is down?

[Delarock]

Yeah, I can confirm it works, downloads in full and restores correctly. When somebody doesn't already have Google Chrome and payware RAR utility this isn't so easy.

[Mad7Scientist]

Payware RAR utility? There is a free evaluation whatever version that everybody uses. And what's this about Google Chrome? You have to have Google Chrome to download a file now?