Topic: How safe it is to download the blockchain from a torrent? - page 2. (Read 1018 times)
Bootstrap torrents exist and were widely used. They're now useless with the most recent Bitcoin Core versions (0.10 and up)
I was wonder why there weren't frequently updated torrents with the blockchain so you could download it way faster than with the Core wallet. Of course, this is less than ideal, but how much are you compromising by using this method? Let's say you check the SHA256 and MD5 hashes and it matches to the current blockchain. Would then this be safe? (is there even a way to know that the piece of blockchain you are downloading from a source that isn't the Core wallet itself is legit?)
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