<p>You can try downloading <strong>bootstrap.dat</strong> from the torrent at sourceforge as suggested in the answer to <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/11592/is-there-a-newer-bitcoin-blockchain-download-available/11819#11819">Is there a newer Bitcoin blockchain download available?</a></p>

<p>Because of its format, the client will verify the integrity and the bottleneck will switch from your download speed to your CPU speed.</p>

<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This is the link to the torrent file</a></p>

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torrent file is no longer hosted at that link if any
Jonas Oestman
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Jonas Oestman
<p>Someone recently stole the computer where my Bitcoin were. As my hard drive was entirely encrypted and as I had backups of my wallet.dat file in three different places, I'm not afraid of losing money, so that's not the problem here.</p>

<p>I bought a new computer, reinstalled everything including bitcoin-qt. I launched it and it started synchronizing with the blockchain. However, the sync process seems to have stopped, and hasn't moved since yesterday. When I put my mouse on the progression bar, it reads « Catching up… Processed 153771 of 264122 blocks [...] Last received block was generated 99 weeks ago. [...] », and it does not change. That's strange, because on the bottom-right corner, it reads that I have « 8 active connexions to Bitcoin network ».</p>

<p>Has anyone an idea of what the problem could be? I doubt that it is a connexion problem, because it first worked perfectly… I would prefer to make bitcoin-qt work rather than use another client.</p>

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possible duplicate of [What can I do when the blockchain synchronization is stuck at a specific block?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/2979/5406)
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The bitcoin-qt synchronization just stopped
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# The bitcoin-qt synchronization just stopped

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-10-16)

Someone recently stole the computer where my Bitcoin were. As my hard drive was entirely encrypted and as I had backups of my wallet.dat file in three different places, I'm not afraid of losing money, so that's not the problem here.

I bought a new computer, reinstalled everything including bitcoin-qt. I launched it and it started synchronizing with the blockchain. However, the sync process seems to have stopped, and hasn't moved since yesterday. When I put my mouse on the progression bar, it reads « Catching up… Processed 153771 of 264122 blocks [...] Last received block was generated 99 weeks ago. [...] », and it does not change. That's strange, because on the bottom-right corner, it reads that I have « 8 active connexions to Bitcoin network ».

Has anyone an idea of what the problem could be? I doubt that it is a connexion problem, because it first worked perfectly… I would prefer to make bitcoin-qt work rather than use another client.

**Tags:** client, bitcoin-core, synchronization

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: possible duplicate of [What can I do when the blockchain synchronization is stuck at a specific block?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/2979/5406)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-11-04. Score: 1

You can try downloading **bootstrap.dat** from the torrent at sourceforge as suggested in the answer to [Is there a newer Bitcoin blockchain download available?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/11592/is-there-a-newer-bitcoin-blockchain-download-available/11819#11819)

Because of its format, the client will verify the integrity and the bottleneck will switch from your download speed to your CPU speed.

[This is the link to the torrent file](http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/bootstrap.dat.torrent/download)

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: torrent file is no longer hosted at that link if any  

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