Hi everyone

Hey guys,

new member here.
Just installed the client and trying to synchronize, but the progress bar perplexes me. It jumps around between saying 43K out of 119K blocks, 43 out of 89, 43 out of 53 etc. So it’s not really a progress so to speak, and it’s been doing it for hours. I have the latest version, which is 0.6.4.4
Could you give me any insight into the situation?

Thanks in advance

Never mind. Looks like it finished after all :)

I have another question though. The block information takes half a Gig already and the coin barely got started. How big will it eventually grow? Litecoin data is already over 4G, and I haven’t even tried the Bitcoin itself yet. I haven’t had a chance yet to read up on how exactly it works, but is it going to be proportional to the number of coins in existence or number of transactions that occurs?
Also to give and receive coins, do I need all the block chain info or just the wallet.dat?

kris_davison

I think The issue is it occasionally connects to a litecoin peer and gets confused about how many blocks there are. (I may be wrong here)
I believe they are looking at a fix in the 8.5 release :)

ChekaZ

Hey zb32, Welcome to the Feathercoin Community! :)

[quote name=“d2” post=“36260” timestamp=“1385385893”]
The block chain is a ledger of ALL transactions that occurred on the network since the beginning of the coin. These transactions are grouped together and stored in blocks. So yes, this will grow exponentially.
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I see, so maybe I don’t understand something, but this does not sound sustainable. Blockchains are big already and these coins are barely used except for early adopters speculating on exchanges. If they get widely adopted, how will everyone store all transactions that have ever occurred in the world? No hard drive will hold that.

Welcome to the FTC community!