Slow Syncing

If you feel like syncing is taking too long and want to speed it up then download the boostrap from this link.

Bootstrapping is a temporary fix for a network performance problem that some users have with the initial sync. This performance problem will be fixed in a future version of the wallet, eliminating the need to use a bootstrap file.

Unzip the file you downloaded, stop the daemon if it is running and move the file named "bootstrap.dat" to this folder:

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On Windows:

C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\eccoin or %APPDATA%\eccoin

If you can't see an AppData folder then please go through this tutorial to enable hidden folders. If you can't see a file named eccoin then create it in that directory.

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On Linux:

home/<USER>/.eccoin or ~/.eccoin

If you can't see a .eccoin folder then go to the top menu-->View->Show hidden files.

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After copying the file you can start the daemon.

Once the bootstrap is loaded, the daemon will rename the bootstrap file to bootstrap.dat.old and download any remaining blocks from the network. In case the import is interrupted, you can rename bootstrap.dat.old back to bootstrap.dat and restart the daemon. It will skip through the blocks that have already been imported.

It is safe to delete the file bootstrap.dat.old