From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SugId-0005gW-JR for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:53:31 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from petersson.at ([213.239.210.117]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1SugIX-0002qM-F8 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:53:31 +0000 Received: by petersson.at (Postfix, from userid 65534) id EC0DA19A002; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:53:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on petersson.at X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 Received: from [192.168.0.199] (chello084114039092.14.vie.surfer.at [84.114.39.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: andreas) by petersson.at (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B308019A001 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:53:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <501256F2.2070307@petersson.at> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:53:06 +0200 From: Andreas Petersson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1SugIX-0002qM-F8 Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:53:31 -0000 I propose a pragmatic solution: Try running the Multibit client. i am not sure if the linux/java based installer would work,so maybe you have to build it from source. I tried it out is really fast compared to bitcoin-qt. after install it took me 15 seconds to get updated and running. Importing a private key/rescanning the blockchain was done in under 30 minutes. It requires Java 6, i think there is a distro even for freebsd. of course, you cannot do things as solomining with it since it uses SPV.