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+layout: forum
+title: 'Re: Share database blocks ?'
+grand_parent: Forum Posts
+parent: Bitcoin Forum
+nav_order: 106
+date: 2010-05-26 20:34:34 UTC
+original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153.msg1258#msg1258
+---
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+# Re: Share database blocks ?
+
+---
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+```
+Re: Share database blocks ?
+May 26, 2010, 08:34:34 PM
+
+It does in fact download 500 blocks at a time, then the counter counts one at a time as it verifies the blocks.
+
+The advantage of letting bitcoin download and verify the blocks is that you do not have to trust the person you're downloading them from.  If you downloaded the blk*.dat files from some site, you would have to trust that site, since you would be accepting the data without verifying it yourself.  If you're copying blk*.dat from another computer of yours, that should be fine.
+
+How long is the initial block download taking for you?
+```