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Syntonization is the process where your node / client (geth, Ethereum Wallet, etc) receives the most up to date data from the Ethereum blockchain.
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Why is Geth's "fast" sync now the default, whereas before it wasn't?
As of version 1.6.0, the default method used by Geth for syncing the chaindata is "fast":
The default sync mode is --syncmode=fast, for full sync please use
--syncmode=full.
Previously, the de …
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Corruption on data-block while synchronising
My home server's been down for a couple of days while I do some upgrades.
I'd had Geth running in one of the terminal windows, but shut it down gracefully using exit before taking the server offline. …
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What is Geth's "light" sync, and why is it so fast?
This question is in a similar vein to the past questions about geth --fast and parity --warp.
There was a recent question where the OP wanted to do as little syncing as possible, and one of the answe …
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What is Geth's "fast" sync, and why is it faster?
One of the answers to this question suggested using Geth's --fast flag to help quickly synchronise the block data.
How does the flag work, and how does using it speed up the synchronisation? Are we s …