Topic: downloading original bitcoin wallet (Read 1140 times)
Torrent helps http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/bootstrap.dat.torrent
My internet speed is solid at around 10-15 mb/sec. How long would it take for me to download the entire blockchain for the original bitcoin wallet?
Is that megabytes or megabits. A lot of internet providers quote speed in megabits which are 1/8 of a megabyte.
My internet speed is solid at around 10-15 mb/sec. How long would it take for me to download the entire blockchain for the original bitcoin wallet?
Time taken to verify the blocks can take more time than downloading it. Your peers' latency and speed can also affect your blockchain download speed. Even if you have lightning fast internet, if your peers have slow internet, you would likely to take a longer time to download. You can always use a lightweight wallet if you prefer not to wait for so long.You can use 5.9.24.81, 75.102.27.50, 107.155.104.194, or 199.233.245.125 right now, if you like
My internet speed is solid at around 10-15 mb/sec. How long would it take for me to download the entire blockchain for the original bitcoin wallet?
Time taken to verify the blocks can take more time than downloading it. Your peers' latency and speed can also affect your blockchain download speed. Even if you have lightning fast internet, if your peers have slow internet, you would likely to take a longer time to download. You can always use a lightweight wallet if you prefer not to wait for so long. 
time | 1333 seconds
= 22.22 minutes
= 22 minutes 13.33 seconds
data transfer |
data | 20 GB (gigabytes)
downstream bitrate | 15 MB/s (megabytes per second)
I = dR T |
T | time
I | data
dR | downstream bitrate
It really depends on the upload speed of the peers you connect to. There's a torrent to speed things up: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bitcoin-blockchain-data-torrent-145386
= 22.22 minutes
= 22 minutes 13.33 seconds
data transfer |
data | 20 GB (gigabytes)
downstream bitrate | 15 MB/s (megabytes per second)
I = dR T |
T | time
I | data
dR | downstream bitrate
It really depends on the upload speed of the peers you connect to. There's a torrent to speed things up: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bitcoin-blockchain-data-torrent-145386
My internet speed is solid at around 10-15 mb/sec. How long would it take for me to download the entire blockchain for the original bitcoin wallet?
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