Topic: 37255 blocks left... 81.9% (Read 1557 times)
I use the satoshi client, ive moved the wallet from linux to windows and back and back again. and it has never had an issue.
i move my wallet from pc to new pc when updating and have decided that I will not commit suicide and wait three days for the blockchain to download...
format old pc ofcourse
format old pc ofcourse
So... I put the blockchain on ramdisk. It's a little faster, and it doesn't cripple the disk performance, but it's still not fast enough
No, don't think so. It's a sum of your connection, disk and cpu speed. I defragged my blockchain copy yesterday and it was really a mess. (20.000 fragments or so)
Not much... the speed of local verification is slowing things down. Not the network.
Workaround: put the blockchain on ramdisk until it's fully synced. I have never done that, but for some reason I feel strong urge to try it.
Workaround: put the blockchain on ramdisk until it's fully synced. I have never done that, but for some reason I feel strong urge to try it.
Does number of connections make a difference? As in: 8 default connections, vs 50-60 when listening port is forwarded?
Yes it's slow..... It's a total PITA at times...
I suggest you to shutdown Bitcoin client after every 5k or so blocks and defragment blockchain and index file. Those files quickly
become horribly fragmented, which not only slows down the process but wears-out your HDD. Get Defragler for the job, it's easy
to use and allows defragmentation of volumes, folders or just individual files.
become horribly fragmented, which not only slows down the process but wears-out your HDD. Get Defragler for the job, it's easy
to use and allows defragmentation of volumes, folders or just individual files.
I had forgot about Defragler. The one-file-defrag-option might be useful. Thanks.
I suggest you to shutdown Bitcoin client after every 5k or so blocks and defragment blockchain and index file. Those files quickly
become horribly fragmented, which not only slows down the process but wears-out your HDD. Get Defragler for the job, it's easy
to use and allows defragmentation of volumes, folders or just individual files.
become horribly fragmented, which not only slows down the process but wears-out your HDD. Get Defragler for the job, it's easy
to use and allows defragmentation of volumes, folders or just individual files.
This is good advice. Another nice and free defragmenter is available at http://mydefrag.com
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Running a full node is not for everybody. There are lightweight clients that don't require the blockchain to be downloaded.
Simplified payment verification (SPV) clients, such as Multibit and Bitcoin Wallet for Android are examples.
Other lightweight clients, including Electrum and Bitcoin Spinner, use a client/server model, where your private keys are still safe locally. Being client/server, these clients do rely on an external party and thus trust is being placed with the server that the information about balances and confirmations is accurate though, so there are reasons to not store or transact significant amounts of coins through these methods.
And then there are hosted (shared) EWallets such as Coinbase, Paytunia and Instawallet as well, in addition to the EWallet accounts for most exchange accounts. Again, with these you are extending full trust to an external party -- thus consider this before storing larger amounts of coins with these methods.
Here's a review of some options:
- http://bitcoinmagazine.net/bitcoin-wallet-options/
As far as those needing or wanting the full blockchain, there are methods to speed up the initial startup. If you pull the bootstrap.dat torrent and run v0.7.1 of the Bitcoin.org client, you'll be up to speed much sooner.
Going forward, the next version of the Bitcoin.org client, (e.g.,likely v0.8.0), will include ultraprune, which makes a huge difference with regard to the performance of the initial block load time.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Don't worry, only 24hrs more and it will end lol
Ain't nobody got time for that.
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