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Then, just leave the DigiByte Core Wallet open and downloading the Blockchain, come back later, and you’ll be ready to go! It usually takes 3 to 8 hours according to your hardware and network conditions.
 
Then, just leave the DigiByte Core Wallet open and downloading the Blockchain, come back later, and you’ll be ready to go! It usually takes 3 to 8 hours according to your hardware and network conditions.
  
You can also open the port 12024 on your router and forward it to your node device for accepting incoming connections.
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You can also open the port 12024 on your router and forward it to your node for accepting incoming connections.

Revision as of 13:06, 18 July 2019

Here’s a quick guide on how to add additional nodes / connections to the DigiByte network, in a bid to help speed up your blockchain download.

“Alternatively you can download a Bootstrap for DigiByte and then follow the instructions here.”

Opening your DigiByte Core Wallet for the first time, you’ll be greeted by a screen telling you it needs to sync around 5 years worth of transactions. That in itself isn’t too bad, as of July 2019 it’s around 13GB. What you want is to be connected to as many peers (nodes) as possible, in order to get it to download as fast as possible.

Open a text editor and save the following content as digibyte.conf file then put it into your block directory.

maxconnections=100
addnode=seed1.digibyte.io
addnode=seed2.digibyte.io
addnode=seed3.digibyte.io
addnode=seed.digibyte.io
addnode=seed.digibyteprojects.com
addnode=digihash.co
addnode=digiexplorer.inf
addnode=seed.digibyteguide.com
addnode=seed-1.us.digibyteservers.io

Default block directories for operating systems:

Windows: C:\Users\UserName\Appdata\Roaming\DigiByte\digibyte.conf
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/DigiByte/digibyte.conf
Linux: ~/.digibyte/digibyte.conf

Then, just leave the DigiByte Core Wallet open and downloading the Blockchain, come back later, and you’ll be ready to go! It usually takes 3 to 8 hours according to your hardware and network conditions.

You can also open the port 12024 on your router and forward it to your node for accepting incoming connections.