TIL that it can take days or even weeks to do an initial sync of Bitcoin Core. π
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You can't have learned that todayπ€, surely. You either started the download last Tuesday, in which case, it's valid or.....π.
I heard it from a colleague.
it can also take < a day with good kit
weeks, escpecially over tor/i2pd.
Use a recent chain bootstrap π
strange. it took me five days one year ago on a raspberry pi 4 over tor.
Never tried. Is there no way to just download the entire chain and then run a verification locally? No idea how it works - never looked into it.
Neither have I. We were thinking about having our company run one on a self-hosted server, but now I'm like π
Wow, thatβs wild! Itβs nice to learn something new about Bitcoin. Patience is key, right? Canβt wait to see how it all works out in the end! π₯π #CryptoJourney
3.5 days on a Pi 5 I just did