From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1StKII-0007oS-1G for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:11:34 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.214.175 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.214.175; envelope-from=grarpamp@gmail.com; helo=mail-ob0-f175.google.com; Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1StKIE-0008Eh-Bu for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:11:33 +0000 Received: by obcva7 with SMTP id va7so10287832obc.34 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:11:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.2.233 with SMTP id 9mr21291822obx.11.1343056284713; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.81.10 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:11:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:11:24 -0400 Message-ID: From: grarpamp To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (grarpamp[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.6 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1StKIE-0008Eh-Bu 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: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:11:34 -0000 > Please fix your software stack. Something is wrong > with your system Nothing wrong, it's all default install. I documented the platform for anyone who wants to confirm it. > A full sync here takes something like an hour. And what, similarly, is your platform? It takes 5 seconds... on my Cray. > I would guess that you are running the blockchain download > through the tor-proxy Use of Tor was stated. Tor is fast enough. I can copy the entire 3GiB of the .bitcoin dir in 7 days... off a slow hidden service. And 0.5 days via exit. > encrypting your disk (aes stuff) will not help you much either Encryption is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect users of bitcoin to be interested in doing. In fact, those not encrypting their disks should probably rethink that plan. > encrypting a the storage of a public blockchain seems to me a bit odd ? Well, without detachdb, it's somehow tied to the wallet, whether while processing or offline. And the wallet and debug.log are not relocatable from the data. And encrypting everything is perfectly reasonable anyways. As is storing your valuable data on filesystems that verify the integrity of their data on disk, such as ZFS/BTRFS. These days, crypto, Tor, and ZFS are common and non-arguments. > I get a full blockchain from scratch in 45 minutes on my laptop Again, timings with no CPU/OS/disk specs are useless infos.