{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2p","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2p","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09\n📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:31 PM, slush \u003cslush at centrum.cz\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e Another idea: Integrate torrent download of bootstrap.dat into bitcoind.\n\u003e Normal user (especially a beginner) won't learn how to download bootstrap\n\u003e separately and import it into bitcoind; he simply give up the\n\u003e synchronization once he realize it takes too much time. From my experience\n\u003e downloading the bootstrap significantly improves catching the blockchain,\n\u003e which may attract some more users to run bitcoind.\n\u003e\n\u003e Not sure about C++, but simple torrent client in python is like 30 lines\n\u003e of code (using libtorrent).\n\u003e\n\nParallel block download would be better for that. No need to involve\nbittorrent.\n\nBut please let's not derail this thread, this is not about other solutions\nfor faster block download or such, let's keep it focused.\n\nWladimir\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140409/bbaa8006/attachment.html\u003e"}