Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scaling at the end user level

2012-02-08 Thread grarpamp
>> Have any groups published proposals for distributing >> a weekly precomputed bootstrap chain? >> rsync? db_dump > git > db_load? >> There is also 50% or more compression available in the index >> and chain. > I have proposed packaging part of the block chain (doesn't even have to be > weekly, j

[Bitcoin-development] 0.6 Release Candidate 1

2012-02-08 Thread Gavin Andresen
I'd like version 0.6 to get lots of review, "soak time" and testing, so please download and run release candidate 1 from:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/ You can review the code changes using github's compare feature: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/c

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scaling at the end user level

2012-02-08 Thread Wladimir
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:18 AM, grarpamp wrote: > A freshly deployed client on an old p4 has been idly crunching away > at building and verifying the initial chain for about a week now. It > should be done in a day or two. This seems rather untenable for > new users. Have any groups published pro