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Have you ever tried to sync Bitcoin from the genesis block?

• BubRoss 7y ago
  Many times. It is trivial but would go even faster if the reference software would use network resources better.
  • RL_Quine 7y ago
    Er better? Sync speed is now limited entirely by a single threaded hash table update, nothing to do with the networking.
    • BubRoss 7y ago
      Why would that be true and why would you think that? Do you realize that even a poorly made hash table can be updated 10 million times per second on single core of a 14 year old computer? Weren't you the same person saying that a node that just has to download blocks and send them out couldn't be run on a VPS for some reason? Are you sure you understand these things and haven't just been reading misinformation?