Blockchain Download Kickstart

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phelix
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Blockchain Download Kickstart

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EXPERIMENTAL!

If the initial blockchain download is taking too long you can unzip this archived blockchain data files into your Namecoin data directory.

https://mega.co.nz/#!YkwBCBQB!TA0j-g1Vy ... r9e3dFtFe8
sha256: edc5eccffa12eca187647f787530ef1370ed0414726cb4c9791f3a4db33f88af

1.) Find your Namecoin data directory e.g. C:\Users\Edward\AppData\Roaming\Namecoin
2.) Make a backup of the whole folder
3.) Unzip the downloaded archive (overwrite or rename the existing files)
4.) Delete or rename the "database" folder or the files in it
5.) Delete nameindex.dat
6.) Start namecoin-qt / namecoind
7.) Wait for it to regenerate the nameindex
8.) ?
9.) Profit

Sometimes a warning might show up that you need to update. It should go away after restarting / new block is found or something.

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