You can get a headstart on block downloading.
Goto http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/ , but read their warning:
WARNING:
Only use these data files IF YOU HAVE AN EMPTY (or no) WALLET.
While it "may" be fine to put these in with an existing wallet, and use the -rescan
option, the target audience here is new bitcoin installs with an empty wallet.
Who needs this?
- Any first-time user of bitcoin, who wishes to avoid the lengthy
block chain download through the p2p network.
Instructions:
- Unzip and copy blk*.dat files into your bitcoin data directory
- Remove any database/log* files from your bitcoin data directory
- Run bitcoin or bitcoind
What this does:
- Resets the bitcoin block database and block database index
to approximately block #120000 (give or take a few hundred).
- If you have a wallet with unprocessed transactions, the client
may not recognize them. Thus, the above warning: Only use these data files
IF YOU DO NOT ALREADY HAVE A WALLET.
Source: README.txt, updated 2011-04-28
Topic: block kickstart (Read 747 times)
I just installed on two comps this past week. It took about 12 hours of connectivity to get fully updated. Yatta certainly has a point that in the future if BTC becomes successful the status quo would be impractical.
It's being worked on as a future client implementation. If you see the discussions in the other areas of the boards talking about a 'lite client', this is what they are talking about.
just leave bitcoin open for a day or so, it wont slow down anything (noticably at least) and then its updated 
With 130k+ blocks, it takes a long time to fetch them all via the network. Is it possible to have a seed-file that you can scan-in and be reasonably up-to-date? At that point it's just a matter of getting the newer blocks from your peers.
It would seem that the blk0001.dat could be "seeded" and rescanned to make the indexes, but everything goes pear-shaped when I try that.
Ideas?
It would seem that the blk0001.dat could be "seeded" and rescanned to make the indexes, but everything goes pear-shaped when I try that.
Ideas?
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