Is there an archive location or a place where I could be able to download only the first few hundred blocks of the block chain?
If you are running the Qt client on your computer you already have them at this physical location
If you want to retrieve them through Qt's RPC facility then for index i = 0 to i = 99 iterate: getblock(getblockhash[i])
answered Jan 13 '14 at 17:12
