It takes hours to download the whole history! And as it gets closer to finished it starts taking longer.. why does it have to do the whole thing?
There are thin clients and online wallets for now if the blockchain is too heavy. 
Topic: Why do you have to download the whole history since genesis? - page 2. (Read 1665 times)
It takes hours to download the whole history! And as it gets closer to finished it starts taking longer.. why does it have to do the whole thing?
Every block includes the previous block as a reference so your computer has to verify all the way back that everything is in order. The reason that the later blocks/history take longer is that there are more transactions now than there were a year ago.
to control all balances
It takes hours to download the whole history! And as it gets closer to finished it starts taking longer.. why does it have to do the whole thing?
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