{
"subject": "Re: Share database blocks ?",
"content": {
"format": "html",
"body": "<div class=\"post\">It does in fact download 500 blocks at a time, then the counter counts one at a time as it verifies the blocks.<br/><br/>The advantage of letting bitcoin download and verify the blocks is that you do not have to trust the person you're downloading them from. If you downloaded the blk*.dat files from some site, you would have to trust that site, since you would be accepting the data without verifying it yourself. If you're copying blk*.dat from another computer of yours, that should be fine.<br/><br/>How long is the initial block download taking for you?</div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153.msg1258#msg1258"
},
"date": "2010-05-26T20:34:34Z"
}