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I am trying to setup a node using bitcoin core https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/ but it is taking ages to download. Running for past 2 days and downloaded only 15 % . I have a decent internet connectivity 200 Mbps and a 4 GB windows machine with 200 GB of free disk dedicated for this.

Since the blocks get pruned, is it possible to get the latest pruned cut from somwhere I guess that will be around 2 GB instead of 350 GB .

Thanks in advance

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If you could download an already synchronized state, you shouldn’t do that. The purpose of synchronization is to produce a valid database containing the state of the network, downloading somebody else’s can have false entries and your node would not know that it is invalid. Increasing the dbcache can improve performance but you don’t have much additional memory to give Bitcoin Core to use.

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  • How much memory will be ideal for this ? I downloaded testnet and it downloaded in a few hours on the same computer. But relatively main is super slow .
    – Shakti
    Commented Aug 4, 2021 at 7:14
  • Generally speaking more is better, if you can allocate a gigabyte or two to the dbcache it will be somewhat faster, there's diminishing returns past 4GB.
    – Claris
    Commented Aug 4, 2021 at 10:55
  • I have given 2048 MB as Size of database cache, and nothing else is running besides bitcoin core. I have given Prune block storage to 2GB, do think that can cause this slowness ?
    – Shakti
    Commented Aug 4, 2021 at 12:22

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