Publication date 2018-01-02 Topics fastcoin bootstrap.dat Contributor m0gliE





2018-Jan-02

For quicker results, set maxconnections=0 while importing. After import, close client, then set to maxconnections=2 while syncing After syncing, close client, then set maxconnections=12 and restart.

When Fastcoin imports the blockchain and builds the index, connecting clients will try to send block data which reduces the client performance while building the database.

Even while synchronizing the blockchain, if you are connected to many clients at once, it will actually reduce the performance of incoming data. Once the blockchain is fully up to date, you can restart the client using any number of connections as it will no longer hinder the synchronization performance. bootstrap.dat allows a new Fastcoin client (not synced) to rapidly import the initial blocks from a local file instead of slowly downloading blocks from random peers. This significantly reduces the time it takes to get a client synced with the current blockchain.2018-Jan-02

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bootstrap.dat allows a new Fastcoin client (not synced) to rapidly import the initial blocks from a local file instead of slowly downloading blocks from random peers. This significantly reduces the time it takes to get a client synced with the current blockchain.







Simply having bootstrap.dat in Fastcoin's expected data directory will make your initial block sync much faster. The import process can be even faster if you use the -dbcache=1000 command line parameter which uses an additional 1GB of RAM for the database index cache.







Extracting the bootstrap.dat.xz







Regardless of your operating system, use the following steps to make use of the bootstrap.dat file:







1. Download bootstrap.dat.xz from mirrors or torrent.



2. Decompress the bootstrap.dat.



3. Put it into the Fastcoin datadir. "%appdata%/fastcoin" / "~/.fastcoin"



(This is the same folder that contains wallet.dat and the blocks folder.)



4. Delete bootstrap.dat.old if you want to recover some storage space.







Fastcoin Data Folder







Linux



xz -d bootstrap.dat.xz



Fastcoin's data directory is located in ~/.fastcoin/ by default. You can run ls -a to see directories that start with a period. You can also search for the directory with the following



command:







find / -name wallet.dat -print 2>/dev/null







Mac



You can obtain xz from MacPorts or http://macpkg.sourceforge.net/.



Fastcoin's data directory should be located in ~/Library/Application Support/Fastcoin/.







Windows



7Zip is a free utility that can decompress .xz files, so does the latest version of WinRAR.







Click on Start then Run (or press WinKey+R) and type:







explorer %APPDATA%\Fastcoin







Fastcoin's data directory will open. "AppData" and "Application Data" are hidden by default in Windows.







Copy bootstrap.dat to data directory







Copy the bootstrap.dat to your data directory. Load the Fastcoin client and wait for it to load the blocks. After loading is complete, the bootstrap.dat will be renamed to bootstrap.dat.old at which point you can choose to delete it.

Addeddate 2014-03-12 15:08:16.149912 Bootstrap.dat.xz xz compressed format Identifier fastcoin_bootstrap Scanner FTP Source torrent:urn:sha1:1b62b2238a820e91d5a7a3bedaf802d61ae0a8b8

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