j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMN<div class="post">We should bundle a snapshot of the block chain with each release of the Bitcoin software to save the user from having to download the entire chain upon a new install.<br/><br/>In terms of trust: The user is already trusting bitcoin.org's download to be valid. Combining the zip/exe installer with a snapshot of the block chain is not a big deal in my opinion. They can publish hashes and signatures to ensure file integrity, etc.<br/><br/>Even in a worst case scenario where the block chain snapshot was compromised nothing bad will happen. The longest block chain always wins. The client would download a new copy from the P2P network. (Besides, if the block chain was compromised we have bigger problems such as the software itself being trojaned, but this is another topic).<br/><br/>It's ++good!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=125.msg1055#msg1055">Quote from: davidonpda on May 03, 2010, 02:40:35 PM</a></div><div class="quote">34 MB... on a fast DSL plan, that should take a couple of minutes. Not 3 hours.... <br/></div></div> text/html
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