j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMÇ<div class="post">Indeed, shipping the data with the client is just a kludge.<br/><br/>If the main reason that the bitcoin P2P protocol is so inefficient in transferring large amounts of blocks, that should be fixed. I think that's because of the HDD syncing going on. Maybe this should be held off for the initial download, or the protocol should be made more bittorrent-like for the blocks [0..last-10000], as they are basically set in stone.<br/></div> text/html
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