<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2p</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1xqshkqv2g7uea4xzqwvmgjcz7u8vfavw6aazs999v0azsv3w7u3qpymc2p</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09&#xA;📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:31 PM, slush &lt;slush at centrum.cz&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Another idea: Integrate torrent download of bootstrap.dat into bitcoind.&#xA;&gt; Normal user (especially a beginner) won&#39;t learn how to download bootstrap&#xA;&gt; separately and import it into bitcoind; he simply give up the&#xA;&gt; synchronization once he realize it takes too much time. From my experience&#xA;&gt; downloading the bootstrap significantly improves catching the blockchain,&#xA;&gt; which may attract some more users to run bitcoind.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Not sure about C++, but simple torrent client in python is like 30 lines&#xA;&gt; of code (using libtorrent).&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Parallel block download would be better for that. No need to involve&#xA;bittorrent.&#xA;&#xA;But please let&#39;s not derail this thread, this is not about other solutions&#xA;for faster block download or such, let&#39;s keep it focused.&#xA;&#xA;Wladimir&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140409/bbaa8006/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>