From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: slush <slush@centrum•cz>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoind-in-background mode for SPV wallets
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:37:10 +0200 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:31 PM, slush <slush@centrum•cz> wrote:
> Another idea: Integrate torrent download of bootstrap.dat into bitcoind.
> Normal user (especially a beginner) won't learn how to download bootstrap
> separately and import it into bitcoind; he simply give up the
> synchronization once he realize it takes too much time. From my experience
> downloading the bootstrap significantly improves catching the blockchain,
> which may attract some more users to run bitcoind.
>
> Not sure about C++, but simple torrent client in python is like 30 lines
> of code (using libtorrent).
>
Parallel block download would be better for that. No need to involve
bittorrent.
But please let's not derail this thread, this is not about other solutions
for faster block download or such, let's keep it focused.
Wladimir
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 15:29 Wladimir
2014-04-09 15:37 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 15:41 ` Natanael
2014-04-09 15:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 16:09 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2014-04-09 19:25 ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 6:04 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10 11:09 ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 11:29 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 11:32 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-10 11:43 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 11:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-10 11:54 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 17:30 ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-11 16:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-04 21:11 ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-09 17:31 ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 15:42 ` Brian Hoffman
2014-04-09 15:57 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 16:09 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 15:47 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-09 16:27 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 17:46 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-09 17:50 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-09 18:00 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-09 18:19 ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 18:35 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-09 18:46 ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 18:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 18:58 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-09 19:33 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 20:12 ` slush
2014-04-09 20:31 ` slush
2014-04-09 20:36 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-09 21:04 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-09 20:37 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-04-09 20:35 ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 20:50 ` slush
2014-04-09 20:55 ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-04-10 6:38 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 6:50 ` Wladimir
2014-04-10 7:09 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 9:33 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 7:10 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10 9:17 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 9:39 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10 10:40 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 10:44 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-10 11:36 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 11:45 ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-10 11:52 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-10 9:47 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-09 18:04 ` Peter Todd
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2014-04-09 17:35 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Wladimir
2014-04-09 16:03 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Peter Todd
2014-04-09 17:33 ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-04-09 17:38 ` Wladimir
2014-04-09 17:38 ` Peter Todd
2014-04-09 18:35 ` Kevin
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