I've been downloading the blockchain using Geth --rpc so that my computer can mine ethereum, however it's been downloading for 3 days and is at roughly 23GB's in size (yesterday it was 25GB's). Though I was curious what would happen to the blockchain I've already downloaded, if my internet experienced an outage before the blockchain completed?
I assume it would simply keep trying until the connection resumed, but this is new to me. If I may also ask, what is the current size of the blockchain? I don't mind the wait, I would just like an idea of where I'm at, if it's around 80% done, 50% done, or what. :)
Also if it helps my ISP speed is 50MB's download, my computer has 16GB's RAM, i5-3570K CPU, 1080TI FTW GPU, Windows 10Pro, and about 200GB's of free space on the hard drive.
Please let me know.
Thank you!
--syncmode fast
over an SSD disk should download the blockchain in less than a day, a couple of hours with a fast internet connection. Enteringweb3.eth.syncing
in the geth console will show the current progress, most recent block is 3966826, as of 2017-07-03 07:38 GMT.