Once the wallet client completes reading data from bootstrap file, it will then use the P2P connection to download the remaining blocks. Instead of using Peer to Peer communication your wallet client can read blockchain data from this compressed bootstrap file which contains the copy of blockchain data until a certain block height. This is usually slow and especially if you are using wallet for the first time then syncing process can take quite a long time. How? Your wallet client downloads and verifies each blocks from the P2P network. This compressed Bootstrap.dat file is used to speed up the initial blockchain download times.
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What is Bootstrap file and how it works? Where can I find Bootstrap.dat for Bitcoin and how to use this file? What is Bootstrap.dat?īootstrap.dat is a file that contains the copy of blockchain from genesis block to a certain point of time. Fortunately, to accelerate the wallet synchronization process you can use Bootstrap file.
You can add nodes to your wallet which will help with the network connection but it doesn’t speed up the synchronization process.
This is a problem with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency wallets whose blockchain file size is huge. Even computers with high Internet speed will take days or even weeks to sync the Bitcoin blockchain. Since it requires Peer to Peer communication to download and validate each blocks the process of synchronizing the whole blockchain will be slow. Not just Bitcoin but most of the cryptocurrency core wallet works like this as they are all based on Bitcoin.
The wallet client of Bitcoin downloads blockchain from the network by syncing with other nodes. Bitcoin is a Peer to Peer cryptocurrency.
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