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May 06, 2013, 01:56:55 AM
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guys i just downloaded the Bitcoin client and it showed out of sync and also that it was syncing .
so do we receive the bit-coins only after the syncing is complete ??
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May 06, 2013, 02:01:33 AM
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Yes, you must be synced with the network to receive recent transactions.

My name was simply a play on "Blue Engineer" from Team Fortress. I am not affiliated with Microsoft or the Azure project.
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May 06, 2013, 02:06:02 AM
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Yes, you must be synced with the network to receive recent transactions.

You do not have to be synced to receive BitCoin payment, you have to be synced to see the transaction.

Each time you fire up that wallet you will have to sync. If you haven't used it in over a week, you will have lots of blocks to download.
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May 06, 2013, 02:07:11 AM
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You do not have to be synced to receive BitCoin payment, you have to be synced to see the transaction.
Ah, my bad.

My name was simply a play on "Blue Engineer" from Team Fortress. I am not affiliated with Microsoft or the Azure project.
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May 06, 2013, 02:46:48 AM
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 The blockchain is getting really big and it takes like a whole day now to download it. I think the size could become a problem in the future.
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May 06, 2013, 03:15:04 AM
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The blockchain is getting really big and it takes like a whole day now to download it. I think the size could become a problem in the future.
New strategies will emerge to deal with it. Blockchain pruning, super nodes/light nodes etc.
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May 06, 2013, 03:40:56 AM
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The blockchain is getting really big and it takes like a whole day now to download it. I think the size could become a problem in the future.

I haven't opened it more then a few times in the last few months, has never finished syncing. Boy does it kill my HDD
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May 06, 2013, 04:46:25 AM
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The blockchain is getting really big and it takes like a whole day now to download it. I think the size could become a problem in the future.

This was my biggest problem with bitcoin-qt -- and why I didn't get into it 6 months ago. It took days (literally) to complete, and never did. I finally gave up and figure this shit would never work.

Then someone told me about multibit a few months later...and I discovered coinbase. I have since stopped using coinbase, infavor of multibit.
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May 06, 2013, 06:40:55 AM
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The blockchain is getting really big and it takes like a whole day now to download it. I think the size could become a problem in the future.

It can be trimmed though.
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May 06, 2013, 03:03:44 PM
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The blockchain is getting really big and it takes like a whole day now to download it. I think the size could become a problem in the future.

Also, what about transaction history? Being so long I could see this becoming a problem in the future.
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May 06, 2013, 03:43:33 PM
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If you don't want to wait for the entire blockchain to sync, you can use a client like Electrum which takes far less time and less space on your hard drive.
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May 06, 2013, 03:47:51 PM
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my first sync on my desktop with a 30mbps connection took 2 days to complete.

My server running bitcoind took 2 days to complete at a full 100mbps...

Ultimately it seems that it is dependent on the specs of the machine and how fast it can traverse through the blockchain resource wise, not network wise.
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May 07, 2013, 01:44:17 AM
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is there any way to speed up the syncing process ?

someone was talking about coinbase or something ?
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May 07, 2013, 01:48:44 AM
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easy way to overcome the need for downloading the blockchain through bitcoin network is to download it manually.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/
before you try anything like this, I suggest you back up your wallet

edit:
also read through this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0
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May 07, 2013, 02:05:17 AM
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yea what the guy above me said
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