May 26, 2024

However, to keep this in perspective, Jameson Lopp's sync with validation of bitcoind to block 819,000 took 8:38. Linear projection to 840k puts that at 8:51 vs. our 5:00. There are material differences in the comparison, such as the fact that his tests are performed on a LAN against two fully-synced nodes whereas mine have been over the Internet (disadvantage), and that both his RAM and CPU speeds are faster than mine (2666MHz/2400, 3.1GHz/2.1) (disadvantage), but I have more RAM (256GiB vs 32) and more cores (32 dual vs. 6) (advantage). A better comparison would be running Core directly yon my machine with full validation. With NO validation it doesn't even get 10% of the chain downloaded in 1.5 hours (when we finish) so certainly adding the significant validation cost won't improve that.