To speed up, you can use this.
Tried the bootstrap from git (https://github.com/bitcreditscc/bootstrap), which got me to height 299611, got 4 connections and new blocks slowly coming in (mega links are not very practical on linux servers... though the bootstrap git is getting huge)
edit: no luck, daemon got stuck at 304039
edit 2: downloaded the mega file, but it's not a bootstrap, but a full download (ie. it will not be verified for correctness by the daemon), PM'ed to bitcreditscc for confirmation it's valid
If blockchain will stuck you could also use "reconsiderblock blockhash" so for block 304039 it would be : "reconsiderblock 0003e19a92200c348b3fe4e075d14c26b15100af1ba737f405517e5f65e6e8a9" if you are using latest client then it should start further, if older - you got to stop your client and start again after that.
hmm reconsider and restarting was not enough to unstuck the daemon, it is still stuck and debug log says
2016-02-04 20:15:46 InvalidChainFound: invalid block=00003c42eeb2f60dcf787726ce4e5bc5b8adf40f655297bd9d0378d8c1201863 height=309395 log2_work=35.952097 date=2016-02-04 15:10:48
2016-02-04 20:15:46 InvalidChainFound: current best=001014e824b8baf8c161e8bf2a950178c98a8a062df52e0a44794697cf355005 height=309394 log2_work=35.952097 date=2016-02-04 15:06:27
Yeah, sometimes got to use it few times "reconsiderblock 001014e824b8baf8c161e8bf2a950178c98a8a062df52e0a44794697cf355005" , maybe there was some problem with these blocks, fork or whatever ...
still not working,,, any other ideas?