I was not able to get my Etherium blockchain synced on time before day 24 hit and I see that the option to add my ethereum address on the ICO website is gone and I wanted to have the ICN ICO tokens delivered to my wallet, but this damned GETH is taking forever to fully sync this wallet, even with the --fast and --cache=1024 parameters active being the first time syncing from scratch.
If someone knows of a website that is hosting a copy of Ethereum's blockchain so that I can download the .RAR/.ZIP and extract it all to my blockchain directory and quickly be done with it, this is super annoying having to wait too long for this to sync from scratch.
Current syncing progression is about 100 MB per hour, total synched so far: 4.71 GB as measured in the ./blockchain directory I wonder what's the total number of GB for a complete sync?
When the ICN tokens gets finally distributed, will everyone who took no actions and have the tokens on the ICO website have the option to send partial to full tokens to their offline wallets at the same time? Or will I now have to wait longer for me to have the option to withdraw to address?
If you are not familiar with eth is better you have leve them on ico web site.
btw the myetherwallet procedure doesn't need any blockchain download.
I didn't know that there were variations of ethereum wallets that didn't require the download of the chainblock. I am using Mist because over a year ago I used it and currently do have 5 ETH on my bakced up wallet that I wanted to use for the ICN tokens so since I had prior experience with Mist I decided to use Mist again but loaded up Geth with the --fast parameters because I read somewhere like on July that a person was able to fully sync their blockchain in less than 10 hours so I thought I was going to be done in less than a day at most, but I guess that the blockchain has grown tremendously in matter of just months to warrant waiting for sync to complete in more than 2 days now.
As opposed to "not being familiar with eth and having them hold my coins", that's why I wanted to re-establish my Mist client again and regain that familiarity I have with Eth again and do the test transfer first to ensure everything was in order before I decided to hold the coins myself because I am not a believer that my coins should be held by any 3rd party for security reasons, not saying that their website is not very secure but I rather not take my chances. Sure, I failed in waiting so late before finally deciding to re-install Mist on my computer again after more than a year that I haven't looked the Ethereum way.
As a self employed computer engineer I have all the skills to keep my own computer secure, always use strong password and perform multi backups of my wallet files in different places as to not store all the eggs in one basket. Once again, I didn't know that there were versions of the Ethereum wallet that required no blockchain syncing what so ever (so called "thin clients" I guess), I guess I didn't google hard enough.
Since I started the syncing process I mind as well let it finish, ONE because once I am presented with the withdrawal options on the ICO website I can do my own test as in sending a very small amount first and if everyone is ok then send the rest and TWO, having a properly and fully synced Ethereum wallet as opposed to using the Thin Clients like the one you were talking about that requires no syncing means that I will be open to the possibility of experimenting with Eth Mining.