Can someone upload a mainnet bootstrap file please?
I am starting RC8 on a 64bit Ubuntu on the testnet with the bootstrap file. debug.log shows that nud is downloading 2014-08-xxx . With a 400MB bootstrap file shouldn’t nud start with some time in 2015? @sigmike
ah… that sounds more like it’s a testnet issue. You might be connected to another node that’s on a fork, or the network has stopped minting. I was worried you were on mainnet. I haven’t used testnet for some time so I can’t say for sure what is causing it. I’m trying to create a bootstrap for mainnet so maybe you want to wait for me to post that before trying on mainnet.
I am already downloading blockchain in mainnet. Very very slow indeed!
It would be awesome if there was an option to load the bootstrap from inside wallet
I started from a fresh data file and got past the splash screen (thanks). Been downloading the blockchain for the last 70 hours. Extrapolating the rate indicates it should be done after ~ 100 hours, ie. 30 hours from now. RAM usage is 12% of 4 Gb although the nu client is demanding 50% of the CPU during synch.
That’s a direct download link to the bootstrap. Just drop it into your Nu data directory and start up 2.1. You should see it say “importing blocks from disk” on the status bar.
I’ve never tried this before but if someone wants to try download through bittorrent below is a link to download a torrent file. If someone could try that out it would be really helpful as well.