<p>According to section 7 of the <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_white_paper#Reclaiming_Disk_Space" rel="nofollow">original bitcoin spec.</a> by Satoshi:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks,
  the spent transactions before it can be discarded to save disk space.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>In order to get the bitcoin-qt client running, I am currently downloading the ENTIRE block chain from the <a href="https://bitcoin.org/bin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent" rel="nofollow">https://bitcoin.org/bin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent</a></p>

<p>Is there a smaller download somewhere? My google skills are failing me, plz help.</p>

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2014-05-03T17:18:02.527Z
You could use a thin-client like MultiBit which doesn't require the entire blockchain to be downloaded.
Luca Matteis
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2014-05-03T20:42:20.800Z
Hi, welcome to the site. Have a look at the question Nate points to, according to the answers given therein the download size would not be reduced, only the storage.
Joe Pineda
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Reclaiming Disk Space
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# Reclaiming Disk Space

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-05-03)

According to section 7 of the [original bitcoin spec.](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_white_paper#Reclaiming_Disk_Space) by Satoshi:

> Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks,
> the spent transactions before it can be discarded to save disk space.

In order to get the bitcoin-qt client running, I am currently downloading the ENTIRE block chain from the <https://bitcoin.org/bin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent>

Is there a smaller download somewhere? My google skills are failing me, plz help.

**Tags:** blockchain, bitcoin-core

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You could use a thin-client like MultiBit which doesn't require the entire blockchain to be downloaded.  
> **username_2**: Hi, welcome to the site. Have a look at the question Nate points to, according to the answers given therein the download size would not be reduced, only the storage.  

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