Well, I've been away for quite some time, and during which, have lost access to my original account "m0gliE" on bitcointalk.org.
So if anyone has looked at my pervious posts from that account and wondered if I have gone off the deep end, I must apologize.
I am both delighted and saddened to see how Fastcoin has progressed. Delighted that it still functions, but saddened that I, along with the others, have not dedicated more time to the project.
First off, let me address some quick fixes that will resolve many of the problems I've seen posted here and on reddit.
I've recently uploaded the entire blockchain files and bootstrap.dat files to archive.org and sourceforge.net
You can download the individual files and run using -rescan to build the database, or download and extract the bootstrap.dat file.
Note: Importing the bootstrap.dat file verifies each and every block so it's expected to take at least 6 hours to complete. [use -dbcache=4096]
Note: Placing the individual files in your datadir will greatly reduce the time needed to scan. Use with the -rescan command switch.
https://archive.org/details/Fastcoin_Blockchainhttps://archive.org/details/fastcoin_bootstraphttps://sourceforge.net/projects/fastcoin/For quicker results, set maxconnections=0 while importing the bootstrap.dat
After import, close client, then set to maxconnections=2 while completing synchronization.
After syncing, close client, then set maxconnections=12 and restart.
When Fastcoin imports the blockchain and builds the index, connecting clients will still try to query and send block data which reduces the client performance while building the database.
Even while synchronizing the blockchain, if you are connected to many clients at once, it will actually reduce the performance of incoming data. Once the blockchain is fully up to date, you can restart the client using any number of connections as it will no longer hinder the synchronization performance.
Some of these issues will easily be addressed in upcoming fixes for the current and future versions of Fastcoin.
-m
We look forward to your continued contribution as our lead Dev, along with all of the new Developers that have joined us on Github. We also welcome back Joshua Barretto (Zesterer), Shitscared, and Coradan to the fray. Special shout out goes to some new faces, Pierre Pronchery, Fisherman21, shaib39, ProkhorZ, CodeRunner, and Chewy83!
Any additional developers that would like to join in please feel free to email us at
and we will send you an invite to join our team within Github.