Download Bitcoin Blockchain [bootstrap.dat] (before Bitcoin Cash netsplit)

Even using a fast computer with a high-speed connection to the Internet it may take days to synchronize the Bitcoin Blockchain.

You don’t like to wait? Download the latest bootstrap.dat file to speed up the initialization process.

Instead of loading and verifying each block from the peer-to-peer network, your Bitcoin client can load all this information from a single bootstrap.dat file. After the process has been completed, your Bitcoin client is only loading the remaining blocks using the peer-to-peer network. This helps you to get ready much faster in many usage scenarios.

Update: I’ve prepared an updated bitcoin blockchain bootstrap.dat file which contains all Bitcoin blocks up to #478100 (Jul 29, 2017, 09:31:58).

Note: This bitcoin blockchain bootstrap.dat file contains all blocks of both Bitcoin (Core) and Bitcoin Cash before the netsplit occurred on Aug. 1, 2017. (block #478559 is the first block after the hard fork of Bitcoin Cash)

What’s new

The compression format has been updated to xz which allows the decompression of the bootstrap.dat file while downloading it. If you are an expert you can use system pipes to inject the highly compressed serialized Bitcoin blockchain bootstrap.dat to the Bitcoin initial blockchain load up process.

In effect, this means that you get an amazing deployment speed of new Bitcoin nodes. I kindly invite you to share your results…

Download

To download this file please make a donation of whatever amount is suitable for you. After donation, you are redirected to your individual download page.

to download bootstrap.dat.xz

--- block info ---
block count: 478100
block  date: 2017-07-29 09:31:58
block  time: 1501320718
block  hash: 000000000000000001103d78c72d055d883eced4adf4d37062de45445494c63d
--- signatures ---
SHA256(bootstrap.dat)= 39705e114907fd3a19285be779070347e3933e053edfd32673ebec2733cdaf62
SHA256(bootstrap.dat.xz)= ca3de4f165f97fa3583f337a8e53bb00c68bf304f69e52abb8541ac28b78353c

Note

This download file has about 82 GB size; decompression needs some additional ~125 GB. Importing this file needs another ~140 GB. Take care of having enough free disk space available for this task!

Installation

In order to get things running smoothly keep the Bitcoin-Qt (or Bitcoin Cash) application closed and follow these steps after having installed the application successfully on your computer system.

Download the latest bootstrap.dat.xz file and uncompress (7-Zip or XZ Utils) the included bootstrap.dat file into your Bitcoin-Qt application folder:

Unix/Linux: ~/.bitcoin
MAC OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
Windows: [User Directory]AppDataRoamingBitcoin (i.e. C:UsersMyUsernameAppDataRoamingBitcoin

Open your Bitcoin-Qt application and wait until it has “imported the blocks from disk…”. The remaining blocks until “now” will be synchronized via the peer to peer network afterward.

Feedback

Feedback on success is welcome 🙂

Donation

Hosting this ultra-large file offering a secure, encrypted option to speed-download the latest bootstrap.dat is impossible for me without donations.

To download this file please make a donation of whatever amount is suitable for you.
Recommended donation 5$, minimum donation 1$ (depending on the credit card transaction fees).

After donation you are redirected to your individual download page.

or Download with PayPal

Thank you for your support.

Hint: If you are unable to donate for whatever reason, please leave a comment below…

Average Rating

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32 thoughts on “Download Bitcoin Blockchain [bootstrap.dat] (before Bitcoin Cash netsplit)”

Geek 2017-08-18 at 7:34 am

Awesome!

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moi 2017-08-18 at 9:49 am

Thank you

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j 2017-08-22 at 1:30 pm

good resource, thank you.

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Jim 2017-08-23 at 1:06 am

confirm: injection of bootstrap.dat (xz -d) while downloading it with wget works like a charm using system pipes.

Awesome!
Great option if you don’t like to save a local copy of the file!

Thank you!!

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Rubz 2017-08-24 at 8:48 am

Very Helpful, thank you!

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Ian 2017-08-25 at 4:23 pm

Thank you for this download, it is very handy and I couldn’t find it anywhere.

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Steve 2017-08-25 at 6:27 pm

Thanks!!

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mario 2017-08-29 at 3:17 am

reply thnkn

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DDZZ 2017-09-05 at 2:02 pm

nice

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NIck 2017-09-05 at 9:43 pm

Thank you

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Mal 2017-09-05 at 11:03 pm

Hi,
Thanks for the file.

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luke 2017-09-08 at 1:37 am

dont have a cc

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1. flo Post author2017-09-11 at 12:01 am
  
  shall I add a BTC donation option for this file download, too?
  
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Darth 2017-09-14 at 9:46 pm

Thanks

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mikey 2017-09-19 at 2:27 am

thanks dude

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1. flo Post author2017-09-19 at 2:32 am
  
  you are welcome 🙂
  
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Simon 2017-10-22 at 6:48 am

Brilliant thanks

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Jean 2017-12-02 at 11:50 pm

thanks a lot

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orest 2017-12-05 at 6:57 pm

Thank you so much!

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q 2017-12-07 at 9:43 pm

Many thanks

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jonny 2017-12-10 at 8:57 am

great thxs

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Richard Stubbins 2018-01-11 at 12:01 am

Worked Great thanks

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Phung 2018-02-28 at 7:28 am

Thank you

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jerry lyu 2018-03-09 at 12:14 am

thank you very much

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Jerry 2018-03-12 at 11:14 pm

Thank you

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yuroi 2018-04-23 at 7:34 am

hello can i download the blockchain before bcash split

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1. flo Post author2018-05-01 at 1:37 pm
  
  Sure, that’s the URL: Download Bitcoin Blockchain bootstrap.dat before BitcoinCash netsplit/
  
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Kyle 2018-06-07 at 10:39 pm

Thanks

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someguy 2018-10-21 at 11:37 am

thanks for offering this

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saavag 2019-07-21 at 8:09 pm

Thank you so much

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saavag 2019-07-24 at 6:52 am

how can I pay via Crypto or Webmoney or Perfect money?

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1. flo Post author2019-09-05 at 9:03 am
  
  You can pay in crypto using the Bitcoin download option.
  
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Download Bitcoin Blockchain [bootstrap.dat] (before Bitcoin Cash netsplit)