Show support for #BTC. Run a full node
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Especially for people just starting out with Bitcoin. You can have a good mobile wallet like
@SamouraiWallet running on your phone in no time to get your feet wet with pocket change and test drive the technology. If that gets you interested you can set up your full node later.
Besides, what about relaying, shunning, S2X and UASF? 
Indeed it's unrealistic to hope that the typical new user is motivated enough to set up a full node, even if it took only a day instead of a week. But people who are going to handle large sums should be strongly encouraged to do so once they have test driven smaller amounts.
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Read the thread. I think we should exhaust all blockchain sync code optimizations before we start to spread chainstate images.
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They already have :). Libbitcoin v4 can synchronize the full chain in less than 3 hours over the P2P network.
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We’ve done it in as little as 1hr on a machine that takes bitcoind over 12 hours, with the same level of validation. I don’t have numbers with full chain validation concurrent with parallel block download yet.
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Internet speeds and performance improvements are increasing much faster than Bitcoin.
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