This issue is being worked on, under the category of "headers first synchronization."
Until that is finished, it is recommended that you download bootstrap.dat via torrent: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0 On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:42 AM, m...@bitwatch.co <m...@bitwatch.co> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently synchronizing a new node and right now, at a progress of a > height of 197'324 blocks, I count in my debug.log an aweful amount of > 38'447 orphaned blocks which is about 19.5 %. > > It has been I while since I watched the synchronization process closely, > but this number seems pretty high to me. > > I'm wondering about the following: would it be possible for a malicious > party to generate chains of blocks with low difficulity which are not > part of the main chain to slow down the sync process? > > > Build and version information: > https://github.com/jmcorgan/bitcoin/tree/026686c7de76dfde6fcacfc3d667fb3418a946a7 > (sipa/jmcorgan address index) > Rebased with: > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/94e1b9e05b96e4fe639e5b07b7a53ea216170962 > (almost up-to-date mainline) > > Compressed debug.log attached: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvtd91xiwmdmun7/debug.7z?m= > (filesize: 7.67 MB, uncompressed: 41.3 MB) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
