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How to Bootstrap the TurtleCoin Blockchain

This guide will help you install a recent copy of the Blockchain. This should significantally speed up the task of getting the Blockchain synced up before you can use your wallet.

Windows:

  1. Make sure TurtleCoind.exe is not running
  2. Open File Explorer and Type %APPDATA%\TurtleCoin and hit enter. file explorer

Note: if the folder doesn't exist, just go to %APPDATA% instead and create the TurtleCoin folder

  1. Delete the following if they exist
  • blockindexes.bin
  • blocks.bin
  • "DB" folder
  1. Download this ZIP file:
  1. Extract the zip into your %APPDATA%\TurtleCoin folder, there should now be two files in there
  2. Start TurtleCoind.exe like you normally do
  3. See Expected Results section below

Mac & Linux:

  1. Make sure TurtleCoind is not running

  2. Open "Finder"

  3. Use this shortcut "Command+Shift+G" to bring up Go to folder findergoto.jpg

  4. Delete the files: blockindexes.bin and blocks.bin and "DB" folder if they exist

  5. Download this ZIP file:

  6. Extract the zip into your ~/.TurtleCoin/ folder, there should now be two files in there

  7. Start TurtleCoind like you normally do

  8. See Expected Results section below

Expected Results if done correctly

When you start TurtleCoind you should see this: (the blocksize, ie: 204236 in this example may be a different number - that's ok)

2018-Feb-21 17:43:37.216471 INFO    Initializing core...
2018-Feb-21 17:43:37.225492 INFO    Importing blocks from blockchain storage
2018-Feb-21 17:43:37.741587 INFO    Imported block with index 1000 / 204236
2018-Feb-21 17:43:38.258202 INFO    Imported block with index 2000 / 204236
2018-Feb-21 17:43:38.928033 INFO    Imported block with index 3000 / 204236
2018-Feb-21 17:43:39.454094 INFO    Imported block with index 4000 / 204236
2018-Feb-21 17:43:40.142969 INFO    Imported block with index 5000 / 204236
2018-Feb-21 17:43:40.830674 INFO    Imported block with index 6000 / 204236

After it completes it will start syncing incrementally like so:

2018-Feb-21 17:47:48.075930 INFO    Imported block with index 204000 / 204236
2018-Feb-21 17:47:48.860470 INFO    Core initialized OK
2018-Feb-21 17:47:48.860470 INFO    Initializing p2p server...

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