my wallet is saying 66 weeks behind...

Salmon1989

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Quote from: jbrnt on May 23, 2014, 05:20:33 PM

If you really would like to use bitcoin core, you can download a "bootscrap.dat" via bittorrent and import it into bitcoin core. It is usually only 2/3 weeks behind.

https://bitcoin.org/bin/blockchain/bootstrap.txt
The current bootstrap.dat includes blocks up till 295000, so it would be 8-9 weeks behind.

Silvercube146

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Quote from: jbrnt on May 23, 2014, 05:20:33 PM

If you are in a hurry to sent some coins away and don't want to wait days to resync, you can export you private keys from bitcoin core and import them into a light client such as Electrum or Multibit.

If you really would like to use bitcoin core, you can download a "bootscrap.dat" via bittorrent and import it into bitcoin core. It is usually only 2/3 weeks behind.

The link to the bootstrap.dat torrent is https://bitcoin.org/bin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent or you can find it on the bitcoin.org page download page https://bitcoin.org/en/download.

To find it yourself without trusting these links is to go to the bitcoin home page https://bitcoin.org/en/, then getting started,choose your wallet,bitcoin core download,bootstrap.dat.

jbrnt

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If you are in a hurry to sent some coins away and don't want to wait days to resync, you can export you private keys from bitcoin core and import them into a light client such as Electrum or Multibit.

If you really would like to use bitcoin core, you can download a "bootscrap.dat" via bittorrent and import it into bitcoin core. It is usually only 2/3 weeks behind.

horstman

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Quote from: videos4btc on May 21, 2014, 05:08:45 PM

Quote from: grue on May 21, 2014, 05:06:47 PM

yes, just copy it to another computer and run

Code:

bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan

Thanks I figured this had to be the case. I'll give this a go.

Did it work? Otherwise you could delete everything on the Bitcoin appdata folder, and let it resync completely.
BUt you shoud backup your wallet.dat first.

videos4btc

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Quote from: grue on May 21, 2014, 05:06:47 PM

yes, just copy it to another computer and run

Code:

bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan

Thanks I figured this had to be the case. I'll give this a go.

grue

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yes, just copy it to another computer and run

Code:

bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan

videos4btc

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Is there a way to take the .dat file and go to another computer that is faster or instantly blops this in so I don't have to wait it could take weeks on the computer I'm on to get back on the network....

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