Bitcoin-QT Problem

[kirk202]

I've been running Bitcoin-QT for 30+ hours and it has yet to sync.  The Synchronizing with Network bar is filled about 25% and of the vertical bars on the lower right theres still a red dot where the bars start and all the bars but the last and largest are yellow.  What am I doing wrong?

Bitcoin Core version v0.9.1-beta (64-bit) running on mac OSX 10.9

Thanks.

[roslinpl]

I've been running Bitcoin-QT for 30+ hours and it has yet to sync.  The Synchronizing with Network bar is filled about 25% and of the vertical bars on the lower right theres still a red dot where the bars start and all the bars but the last and largest are yellow.  What am I doing wrong?

Bitcoin Core version v0.9.1-beta (64-bit) running on mac OSX 10.9

Thanks.

but are any new blocks still downloading or it stuck?

[kirk202]

The Debug window show that its slowly counting blocks, Current number of blocks:  235365 & Estimated total blocks:  302928.  Number of connections show 8. 



Thanks.

[DannyHamilton]

The Debug window show that its slowly counting blocks, Current number of blocks:  235365 & Estimated total blocks:  302928.  Number of connections show 8. 



Thanks.

If that "Current number of blocks" is still increasing, then you're still synchronizing, and it will take a while. 

[kirk202]

Thanks.  I'll let it run.  Just surprised that it takes 2 days to synch.

[DannyHamilton]

Thanks.  I'll let it run.  Just surprised that it takes 2 days to synch.

Your software is downloading and verifying the validity of every bitcoin transaction that has ever occurred since the creation of bitcoin in early 2009.

I'm surprised at how fast it is able to sync.

[kirk202]

Thanks Danny.  If I knew that yesterday I wouldn't have jumped the gun today.  This is good to know.

[DannyHamilton]

Thanks Danny.  If I knew that yesterday I wouldn't have jumped the gun today.  This is good to know.

Keep in mind that it is also going to use up more than 20 Gigabytes of space on your hard drive.

If you prefer not to make such a time and space resource commitment, you can look into one of the lightweight wallets such as Electrum or MultiBit.

You might also consider a hybrid wallet like blockchain.info

[kirk202]

Danny,

Space isn't a problem so I'll let it finish.  Its working on June 2013 now and only about 60k blocks left to go :-)  I've got plenty of time as I just initiated a wire from my USD account to my Bitcoin exchange account.

I downloaded and played with Mulitbit and created a Blockchain wallet yesterday.  I've been reading about Armory but I don't know that I need that much protection yet.  But then again, maybe better safe than sorry.  At this point I'm only buying what I can afford to loose.  I think in the long term the Bitcoin will be a real success, provided it can weather all of the politicians and governments that try to put the screws to it.  I'm thinking if we can get past the next 3 or 4 years it will be so big that it can't be stopped.

Its really amazing how fast things change daily.  I'm studying and learning all I can about Bitcoin as time permits and I've ran across several links that no longer work or the page says it no longer exists.  This forum is a great place to keep up with things too.

Again, thank you so much for your help.