<p>I have Bitcoin Core stored on my external disk and currently I am on 39%. but the problem is that it is getting slow for some reason. The Bitcoin Core Qt app is constantly beachballing on my Macbook Air M1 for some reason. When I click on something the response will appear after 5 seconds or so, it's terrible.</p>
<p>Is this normal, or it will get worse?</p>
<p>Right now, I am on Dec 10, 16:23:29 2017 and it took 20 minutes to get there from Dec 10 00:20:02 2017.</p>
<p>Is this normal? Should I expect even bigger slowdown after 50 or 60% mark?</p>
<p>Any advice how to speed things up on my Macbook Air M1? I got to this 39% after running it for like 4 days - sometimes I turned it off for a couple of hours though.</p>

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2022-04-05T12:38:56.803Z
Does this answer your question? [How to increase the speed of synchronisation?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9277/how-to-increase-the-speed-of-synchronisation)
RedGrittyBrick
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2022-04-06T18:04:12.097Z
Try blocksdir if you have both SSD and HDD.
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Bitcoin core synchronization too slow, only 16 hours of blockchain in 20 minutes
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# Bitcoin core synchronization too slow, only 16 hours of blockchain in 20 minutes

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-04-05)

I have Bitcoin Core stored on my external disk and currently I am on 39%. but the problem is that it is getting slow for some reason. The Bitcoin Core Qt app is constantly beachballing on my Macbook Air M1 for some reason. When I click on something the response will appear after 5 seconds or so, it's terrible.

Is this normal, or it will get worse?

Right now, I am on Dec 10, 16:23:29 2017 and it took 20 minutes to get there from Dec 10 00:20:02 2017.

Is this normal? Should I expect even bigger slowdown after 50 or 60% mark?

Any advice how to speed things up on my Macbook Air M1? I got to this 39% after running it for like 4 days - sometimes I turned it off for a couple of hours though.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, synchronization, mac, performance

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Does this answer your question? [How to increase the speed of synchronisation?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9277/how-to-increase-the-speed-of-synchronisation)  
> **username_2**: Try blocksdir if you have both SSD and HDD.  

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