nutcoin-bootstrap

bootstrap.dat allows a new NutCoin client (not synced) to rapidly import the initial blocks from a local file instead of slowly downloading blocks from random peers. This significantly reduces the time it takes to get a client synced with the current blockchain.

Simply having bootstrap.dat in NutCoin's expected data directory will make your initial block sync much faster. The import process can be even faster if you use the -dbcache=1000 command line parameter which uses an additional 1GB of RAM for the database index cache.

Instructions

1. Download bootstrap.dat.zip.
2. Verify the integrity of bootstrap.dat.zip with the checksums.
3. Decompress to obtain bootstrap.dat.
4. Put it into the NutCoin datadir. This is the same folder that contains wallet.dat and the blocks folder.
5. Delete bootstrap.dat.old if you want to recover some storage space.

Verify integrity

MD5

6a2134604278f5826f90e46ff0a4006f bootstrap.dat.zip

SHA256

1ab7d056c1e2bc67adbc9cd4ea8351349e6a806529f12cafbf77890edc194b20 bootstrap.dat.zip

Copy bootstrap.dat to data directory

After NutCoin has used bootstrap.dat, the file will be renamed to bootstrap.dat.old; at this point you can choose to delete it or keep it.

Linux

NutCoin's data directory is located in ~/.nutcoin/ by default. You can run ls -a to see directories that start with a dot. You can also search for the directory with the following command: find / -name wallet.dat -print 2>/dev/null

Windows

Go to Start>Run (or press WinKey+R) and run: explorer %APPDATA%\Nutcoin NutCoin's data directory will open. "AppData" and "Application Data" are hidden by default in Windows.

Data directory location

Operating System	Default data directory location	Typical path to configuration file*
Linux	$HOME/.nutcoin/	/home/<username>/.nutcoin/nutcoin.conf
Windows	%APPDATA%\Nutcoin\	C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Nutcoin\nutcoin.conf