Speeding up sync for your DigiByte Core Wallet

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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 following content as digibyte.conf file then put it into your chain directory according to your os.

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

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maxconnections=200
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
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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 depends on your hardware and network conditions.