Ultra Fast Block Chain with New Bitcoin Wallet
The Bitcoin Core development team released version 0.1 of its wallet software packages for all platforms this morning. The wallet was made available via the BitTorrent protocol, specifically to better serve regions of the world where Bitcoin.org official servers are either banned or hard to access. Among the goodies bundled in the new release were faster block transfer and a new way of setting transaction fees (details follow). Faster Block Chain Sync. The new wallet drastically improves the speed of the initial block chain synchronization. This method is called "headers first," and....
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