Ridiculously slow bitcoin core wallet sync

[theboarderdude]

I downloaded bitcoin core 0.9.3 yesterday morning(the 22nd) and I've had it syncing since. I'm still 1 year and 29 weeks behind, currently on block 239343. Last time I downloaded a wallet a couple months ago, it took less than 12 hours to download. I have charter for internet, to fairly fast there. Am I doing something wrong?? Trouble shooting tips? Thanks in advance!

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[Newar]

A quick search will find the torrent for bootstrap.dat .

Also look for the connect= command.

But yeah, it takes time.

[Meuh6879]

and majority of time is not the internet connexion ... but the CPU and hard drive speed.

[shorena]

and majority of time is not the internet connexion ... but the CPU and hard drive speed.

Cant confirm, 8 year old laptop = bottleneck is the internet connection.

@OP use the connect=IP command with a server that has a fast internet connection. See below for IPs to use.

Code:

 last updated 2014.12.21
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IP                  - location             - owner[1]  -  speed      - info/stats page[2] - testnet
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84.200.34.113       - Freinsheim, DE, EU   - Newar     - 1000 mbit/s - yes                - no
185.45.192.129      - Amsterdam, NL, EU    - anon      - 1000 mbit/s - /node.php[3]       - yes
213.165.91.169      - Germany, EU          - shorena   -  100 mbit/s - yes                - no
104.45.145.179      - unknown              - grue      -  100 mbit/s - no                 - no
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!! The following nodes have been unreachable at the time of the last update and might be down  !!
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eldinhadzic.org[4]  - LA, USA              - eldinhadz - 1000 mbit/s - no                 - no
50.7.68.180         - New York, USA        - Newar     -  100 mbit/s - yes                - no
5.9.24.81           - Germany, EU          - zvs       -  unknown    - no                 - no
178.79.173.71       - United Kingdom, EU   - zvs       -  unknown    - no                 - no
107.155.104.194     - Dalls, USA           - zvs       -  unknown    - no                 - no
106.185.32.195      - Japan, Asia          - zvs       -  unknown    - no                 - no
94.242.57.173       - Russia, Asia         - zvs       -  unknown    - no                 - no
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[1] refers to a bitcointalk.org username or anon if requested
[2] same IP, port 80 or path/port given
[3] work in progress
[4] IP is 173.236.158.177

[gab0miner]

there are a post in General Discussion about this. The solution is download a big part of blockchain with bittorrent

Posted From bitcointalk.org Android App

[theboarderdude]

@shorena I used the Amsterdam address and I was able to download the remaining ~100,000 blocks in about 7 hours. Thanks!

[rsvoter]

there are a post in General Discussion about this. The solution is download a big part of blockchain with bittorrent

Posted From bitcointalk.org Android App

Yeah that post helped cheers

[BitcoinChick86]

Thanks for the post Shorena, Mine has been syncing for and got to 138000 in 3 days, now its done 15000 blocks in about 5 minutes

[carlosiness]

that's why i stopped using this wallet, use MultiBit which doesn't download whole blockchain, unless you are security guy
my laptop has 4 cores and 8gb of ram, it took me 2 days to get blockcain and cpu was so hot that seemed it will burn..

[Triffin]

Ridiculously slow bitcoin core wallet sync ..

And yet another reason why BTC or ( insert favorite alt ) won't be going mainstream any time soon ..

Triff ..

[BitHarry]

I disagree, Just because its a large does not me its inaccessable, Internet connections are getting better and im sure they will find a way to cut the blockchain down. Bitcoin-QT is by far the most stable wallet IMO and I have used them all, I have had problems with them all apart from Bitcoin-QT

[shorena]

Thanks for the post Shorena, Mine has been syncing for and got to 138000 in 3 days, now its done 15000 blocks in about 5 minutes

@shorena I used the Amsterdam address and I was able to download the remaining ~100,000 blocks in about 7 hours. Thanks!

glad I could help.

I disagree, Just because its a large does not me its inaccessable, Internet connections are getting better and im sure they will find a way to cut the blockchain down. Bitcoin-QT is by far the most stable wallet IMO and I have used them all, I have had problems with them all apart from Bitcoin-QT

Satoshi predicted this. There are several posts hinting towards the majority of users using slim clients. IIRC Satoshis upper bound was <100,000 full nodes ever and slim clients for the rest.
On the other hand we have the bitcoin core devs [1] working on a way to make a it semi slim clients where you can configure an upper bound of diskspace the node can use.
I think any reasonable [2] wallet is fine and there is (or at least will be) a wallet for every kind of user.


[1] here is a recent post where this came up https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=904383.0
[2] proper encryption, you control the keys, capable of backups etc.

[BitcoinChick86]

I always plan to run a full node no matter how big it gets, unless it gets over 2 TB then I may need to pay for a new server

[BookLover]

If it ever reaches 2TB, I'll have an excuse to build myself a larger RAID array (and maybe the funds too ).

[BitcoinChick86]

If it ever reaches 2TB, I'll have an excuse to build myself a larger RAID array (and maybe the funds too ).

I love the way techies always find "excuses" to upgrade their hardware. My motherboard was recently playing up... maybe? I dunno, I just wanted an X99 Chipset and DDR4 RAM

[crazyearner]

If it ever reaches 2TB, I'll have an excuse to build myself a larger RAID array (and maybe the funds too ).

I love the way techies always find "excuses" to upgrade their hardware. My motherboard was recently playing up... maybe? I dunno, I just wanted an X99 Chipset and DDR4 RAM

Yup its the perfect excuse to upgraded. Even tho I have about 16TB of space but used for Burstcoin mining ill still find some way of needing an upgrade and soon be buying some 6TB hard drives or maybe the new 10TB hard drives when out this year depending on prices. Is good to upgrade every few years or just upgrade to high end equipment and not have to be worried about upgrading for a long time.

 Have a nice system with a AMD (Piledriver) FX-8350 4.00GHz  Black edition over clocked to 5GH water cooled and never get any problems with it and right now the newest chip out since buying is AMD (Piledriver) FX-9590. So theirs only been 3 releases of new cpus since I got my 8350 Only time when I will be upgrading again possibly is when they introduce the 12 core this year or maybe when theirs 16 core and can max that with all the video editing and music production I do.

[RD965]

If it ever reaches 2TB, I'll have an excuse to build myself a larger RAID array (and maybe the funds too ).

lol its very far from 2tb. Raid setups are always less safe!

[altcoinex]

Ridiculously slow bitcoin core wallet sync ..

And yet another reason why BTC or ( insert favorite alt ) won't be going mainstream any time soon ..

Triff ..

SPV Mode, Pruning, and Lightweight Wallet clients have a different opinion for the future.

[BookLover]

Raid setups are always less safe!

I'm not sure where you heard this, but it is not true.  Depending on the RAID level used a RAID array can be dramatically safer than independent disks.

[RD965]

Raid setups are always less safe!

I'm not sure where you heard this, but it is not true.  Depending on the RAID level used a RAID array can be dramatically safer than independant disks.

Nope

Its a well known thing, because for speed youll normally use RAID0, and if for every reason one of the hdds crashes the whole set would be unusable