I am trying to set up a raspberry pi for minting, and the download process for the blockchain is taking forever. I already have it downloaded on my home computer; is it possible for me to transfer that over to the Pi, so I don’t have to wait days for it to download again?
I do that all the time. copy blk* walletS.dat database/log* nu.conf, set files readable only by owner. you can copy addr.dat too. but it’s not mandatory.
I’m not sure to be honest. It’s been a while since I’ve tested it. I think there’s issues with doing it across platforms because of differences in file systems, but from Linux-to-Linux I don’t think there’s an issue. It should just be a simple copy/paste of the data dir.
I remember at some point proposing offering a bootstrap.dat over torrent , and I wanted to get it added to the tutorial on https://docs.nubits.com/nu-raspberry-minting/ . Then someone stopped me, I thought it was you.
Sorry, I must have done some confusion, can’t find the thread so was probably in a chat.
Nu doesn’t support the boostrapping file. It was introduced in Bitcoin well after Peercoin forked. Nu and Peercoin are really behind on the Bitcoin developments.
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Nu 2.1 will support the bootstrapping file.
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Anyway transfering between win 32bit and raspi works.