Block chain size/storage and slow downloads for new users - page 11.

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Quote from: HAWKEYE481 on December 03, 2014, 05:30:22 PM

Hi People Currently a brand new Bitcoin miner, pool mining with a Bitmain Antminer S2 I've used Armory for my wallet and I'm currently downloading the block chain through Bitcoin Core. It's actually been downloading for over a week now. At first there was not enough memory on the Laptop to download the whole block chain but I've deleted plenty and it's still running really slowly I'm at 15 weeks but have been for a couple of days now! Any advice on whether I should start again or just ride it out?

Cheers HAWKEYE

Do yourself a favour and use multibit unless you need the entire blockchain for some reason

If it's stuck at 15 weeks for a couple of days its probably corrupted btw

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Hi People Currently a brand new Bitcoin miner, pool mining with a Bitmain Antminer S2 I've used Armory for my wallet and I'm currently downloading the block chain through Bitcoin Core. It's actually been downloading for over a week now. At first there was not enough memory on the Laptop to download the whole block chain but I've deleted plenty and it's still running really slowly I'm at 15 weeks but have been for a couple of days now! Any advice on whether I should start again or just ride it out?

Cheers HAWKEYE

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Soon blockchain pruning will be done and problem with blockchain size will be gone

Kudos to developers for that.

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i ve been using multibit since the start... liked it better even when i was an amature.

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I have tested the clean sync. of my bitcoin core : no problem now, i have retrieve (and CPU) the blockchain in 3 days (non-stop 100% CPU and need 4Mb/s download max to do this).

upload head block first work great now, very very less orphan blocks ... Wink

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Thanks for the update, really informative

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Quote from: PeaceCoinDev on November 16, 2014, 08:03:54 AM

Quote from: TonyT on October 30, 2014, 03:25:39 AM

Quote from: TradeSmart on October 04, 2014, 02:05:28 PM

It took me 23 hours to add fully functional bt-core on my MAC. Downloaded bootstrap.dat and synchronised with network. Macbook is new, but process was so slow.

It took me 44 hours to install Armory. I switched to an online wallet Multibit, but it's not 100% anonymous or even as anonymous as Armory.

I hate to say it but BTC is doomed unless they change their business model.

is armory better than bitcoin core?

Armory only runs with Bitcoin core except for offline usage. You will have to download Blockchain data. Armory gives extra features especially security for Bitcoin core.

~~MZ~~

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Quote from: TonyT on October 30, 2014, 03:25:39 AM

Quote from: TradeSmart on October 04, 2014, 02:05:28 PM

It took me 23 hours to add fully functional bt-core on my MAC. Downloaded bootstrap.dat and synchronised with network. Macbook is new, but process was so slow.

It took me 44 hours to install Armory. I switched to an online wallet Multibit, but it's not 100% anonymous or even as anonymous as Armory.

I hate to say it but BTC is doomed unless they change their business model.

is armory better than bitcoin core?

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Quote from: TaiChen on November 08, 2014, 04:05:33 AM

Quote from: ranochigo on November 07, 2014, 09:00:17 PM

Quote from: halfawake on November 07, 2014, 06:10:02 PM

Quote from: GailSan on November 07, 2014, 08:12:16 AM

Took me four full days to download the BTC blockchain.
For newcomers and widespread adoption that isnt to hot actually..

I'm surprised it wasn't longer than that if you downloaded it recently, personally. I downloaded the Blockchain back in June of last year and it took me about 3 full days, and that was when it was "only" 9 GB.

I'm having to do some troubleshooting stuff to recover my computer from a virus I had earlier, enough that it may end up wiping my drive knowing how messed up Windows is. Is the blockchain BitTorrent still being maintained? I'm just wondering because I need to know if I need to make a backup of the blockchain on my hard drive.

You can upgrade your computer to SSD if possible. The read and write speeds are significantly faster. The Blockchain snapshot on the BitTorrent is still available but you may need sometime for it to sync as it isn't the newest snapshot.

whats a blockchain bittorrent?? i just started syncing and its so slow. is that something to speed up sync?

It is basically the Bitcoin Blockchain file on torrent. By downloading the blockchain using Torrent and put in your bitcoin datafolder, you can speed up sync. This process skips the CPU verification part and the problems of having slow peers by connecting to lots of peer. Take note that the first start up will still take sometime as the client still needs to verify the blocks. Since the blockchain file on torrent was created sometime ago, you still have to synchronize with the network for sometime. Here's the full tutorial https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/bootstrap.md

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Quote from: ranochigo on November 07, 2014, 09:00:17 PM

Quote from: halfawake on November 07, 2014, 06:10:02 PM

Quote from: GailSan on November 07, 2014, 08:12:16 AM

Took me four full days to download the BTC blockchain.
For newcomers and widespread adoption that isnt to hot actually..

I'm surprised it wasn't longer than that if you downloaded it recently, personally. I downloaded the Blockchain back in June of last year and it took me about 3 full days, and that was when it was "only" 9 GB.

I'm having to do some troubleshooting stuff to recover my computer from a virus I had earlier, enough that it may end up wiping my drive knowing how messed up Windows is. Is the blockchain BitTorrent still being maintained? I'm just wondering because I need to know if I need to make a backup of the blockchain on my hard drive.

You can upgrade your computer to SSD if possible. The read and write speeds are significantly faster. The Blockchain snapshot on the BitTorrent is still available but you may need sometime for it to sync as it isn't the newest snapshot.

whats a blockchain bittorrent?? i just started syncing and its so slow. is that something to speed up sync?

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Quote from: halfawake on November 07, 2014, 06:10:02 PM

Quote from: GailSan on November 07, 2014, 08:12:16 AM

Took me four full days to download the BTC blockchain.
For newcomers and widespread adoption that isnt to hot actually..

I'm surprised it wasn't longer than that if you downloaded it recently, personally. I downloaded the Blockchain back in June of last year and it took me about 3 full days, and that was when it was "only" 9 GB.

I'm having to do some troubleshooting stuff to recover my computer from a virus I had earlier, enough that it may end up wiping my drive knowing how messed up Windows is. Is the blockchain BitTorrent still being maintained? I'm just wondering because I need to know if I need to make a backup of the blockchain on my hard drive.

You can upgrade your computer to SSD if possible. The read and write speeds are significantly faster. The Blockchain snapshot on the BitTorrent is still available but you may need sometime for it to sync as it isn't the newest snapshot.

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Quote from: GailSan on November 07, 2014, 08:12:16 AM

Took me four full days to download the BTC blockchain.
For newcomers and widespread adoption that isnt to hot actually..

I'm surprised it wasn't longer than that if you downloaded it recently, personally. I downloaded the Blockchain back in June of last year and it took me about 3 full days, and that was when it was "only" 9 GB.

I'm having to do some troubleshooting stuff to recover my computer from a virus I had earlier, enough that it may end up wiping my drive knowing how messed up Windows is. Is the blockchain BitTorrent still being maintained? I'm just wondering because I need to know if I need to make a backup of the blockchain on my hard drive.

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Took me four full days to download the BTC blockchain.
For newcomers and widespread adoption that isnt to hot actually..

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Quote from: Meuh6879 on October 30, 2014, 08:37:44 AM

Quote from: TonyT on October 30, 2014, 03:25:39 AM

I hate to say it but BTC is doomed unless they change their business model.

I agree but Bitcoin core is the network of bitcoin. Wink

If you don't have bitcoin core ... bitcoin doesn't exist.

Pool's and mining station is the fondation of the bitcoin network.
They use a bitcoin core (or bitcoinj) completly installed.

At this time, you can retrieve more quickly "bootstrap" from torrent official link (need 24h to recreate the blockchain with 75% CPU usage) ... or from other P2P network in final stage (upgraded every 10 generated block in a list of downloads, no need CPU, index and chainstate include).

Dev. must implement this strategy to diffuse more quickly, the blockchain for new client of bitcoin core.

The developers are developing headers-first synchronization which can make normal computer sync faster. Bitcoin core are normally run by Bitcoin enthusiast and other online Bitcoin services. Bitcoin core can only be useful to the network if you port forward port 8333 and leave your computer online for long periods of time. For normal user, it would be better to run a SPV wallet.

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Quote from: TonyT on October 30, 2014, 03:25:39 AM

I hate to say it but BTC is doomed unless they change their business model.

I agree but Bitcoin core is the network of bitcoin. Wink

If you don't have bitcoin core ... bitcoin doesn't exist.

Pool's and mining station is the fondation of the bitcoin network.
They use a bitcoin core (or bitcoinj) completly installed.

At this time, you can retrieve more quickly "bootstrap" from torrent official link (need 24h to recreate the blockchain with 75% CPU usage) ... or from other P2P network in final stage (upgraded every 10 generated block in a list of downloads, no need CPU, index and chainstate include).

Dev. must implement this strategy to diffuse more quickly, the blockchain for new client of bitcoin core.

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Quote from: TonyT on October 30, 2014, 03:25:39 AM

Quote from: TradeSmart on October 04, 2014, 02:05:28 PM

It took me 23 hours to add fully functional bt-core on my MAC. Downloaded bootstrap.dat and synchronised with network. Macbook is new, but process was so slow.

It took me 44 hours to install Armory. I switched to an online wallet Multibit, but it's not 100% anonymous or even as anonymous as Armory.

I hate to say it but BTC is doomed unless they change their business model.

Armory needs Bitcoin Core to function properly. Sure MultiBit isn't 100% anonymous, you can just get a anonymous VPN or use Tor and it would be as anonymous. Multibit just use their server to check balance and broadcast transactions, your anonymity isn't 100% compromised this way. Running a full node is just for users which are more advanced for example, developers. Normal users are encouraged to use SPV clients.

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Quote from: TradeSmart on October 04, 2014, 02:05:28 PM

It took me 23 hours to add fully functional bt-core on my MAC. Downloaded bootstrap.dat and synchronised with network. Macbook is new, but process was so slow.

It took me 44 hours to install Armory. I switched to an online wallet Multibit, but it's not 100% anonymous or even as anonymous as Armory.

I hate to say it but BTC is doomed unless they change their business model.

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Quote from: bitnanigans on October 29, 2014, 05:57:00 AM

I can't even run Bitcoin Core on my desktop anymore due to the speed of my Internet connection. I have my wallet hosted on a VPS.

Your VPS provider have the potential to steal your wallet since they have direct access to your VPS. Why don't you run a lightweight client instead? It is much safer than having your wallet at a wallet which you have no physical access to.

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