That looks great. If I have an easy way to distribute the blockchain, so
people can sync and re-sync, resume downloads .etc then I will put up a
public mirror.

I'll test it on my server.

Thanks

On 10/05/14 12:15, grazcoin wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> As we all know it takes ages to download and validate the blockchain
> within the obelisk.
> I am trying to introduce a shortcut for fast deployment. It comes on the
> expense of trust though.
>
> Once a user is done with obelisk compilation, he can download the tar of
> blockchain directory using:
> zsync http://obelisk.secseq.com/obelisk_blockchain.tar.zsync
>
> remarks:
> 1. current snapshot was taken at block 299838
> 2. http://obelisk.secseq.com and https://masterchain.info/downloads are
> the same directory, only the first serves http which is needed for zsync
> 3. The zsync will download only the required difference if an older
> snapshot exists, and will resume broken downloads.
> 4. signed md5sums at https://masterchain.info/downloads/MD5SUMS.asc
> 5. I am still not sure that the webserver is properly configured to
> support zsync the best way, but hopefully it is.
>
> My bandwidth at home is too slow to really testing it.
> Anyone?
>
> Grazcoin
>
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