CAIx bootstrap.dat file 12/02/2014Hi guys, I've uploaded a bootstrap.dat file for users that are syncing their wallets for the first time.
Adding the bootstrap.dat file to your datafolder will significantly speed up the syncing process.
I will update the file at least once a month.
What is bootstrap.datbootstrap.dat allows a new CAIx client (not synced) to rapidly import the initial blocks from a local file instead of slowly downloading blocks from random peers.
This significantly reduces the time it takes to get a client synced with the current blockchain.
Simply having bootstrap.dat in CAIx's expected data directory will make your initial block sync much faster.
The import process can be even faster if you use the -dbcache=1000 command line parameter which uses an additional 1GB of RAM for the database index cache.
How this works- Download bootstrap.rar from MEGA.
- Decompress to obtain bootstrap.dat.
- Put it into the CAIx datadir. This is the same folder that contains wallet.dat and the blocks folder. Or run the wallet with "CAIx-qt.exe -loadblock=c:\path_to\bootstrap.dat
- Launching the CAIx client will take longer, because the bootstrap.dat file is being imported to the wallet."
- Delete bootstrap.dat.old after the process if you want to recover some storage space.
Cool!