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I am the owner of BlockchainDownload and am looking for a way to get some trust in the website.
I have shared the link in a couple of topics an get the response "Please do not suggest that people download a preindexed blockchain from you. Doing so implies they need to trust you to tell them exactly how much money everyone owns.".
I do now generate a .rar with the whole data directory exept of the peers.dat and wallet.dat.
Is there a way to share the blockchain on a more trustworthy way?
1There might be eventually, when we get "UTXO commitments". – Murch – 2016-06-29T09:53:10.313
but is it better to only share the blocks themselves? makes that the proces more trustworthy? – rollo1996 – 2016-06-29T10:29:10.433
@rollo1996 Yes, just sharing the blocks is safe. They'll be processed at startup just as if they were received from network. It's also not about being trustworthy or not, but about trust not mattering. By just downloading blocks, people do not have to trust you, as there is nothing you could do to defraud them. – Pieter Wuille – 2016-06-29T14:19:19.083
to share the blocks, the data/blocks/index directory is also not included right? – rollo1996 – 2016-06-29T14:48:18.100
do I also need to include the rev*.dat files? – rollo1996 – 2016-06-29T14:52:17.603