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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM <div class="post">Another new user on IRC, Linux this time, was downloading at a rate of 1 block every 4 seconds -- estimated total download time around 4 days.<br/><br/>Other commenters in this thread are correct that upgrading users don't need a block database...&nbsp; but <i>something</i> needs to be done to improve the initial block download experience for new users.&nbsp; Improve the database all you want.. you'll still have peers giving you blocks slowly for any number of reasons.<br/><br/>We have the hashes for genesis block through block 74000 hardcoded (compiled) into bitcoin, so there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to automatically download a compressed zipfile of the block database from <i>anywhere</i>, unpack it, verify it, and start running.<br/></div> text/html