This.

(I think even these of us obsessively following Darkcoin developments would need some time for this to REALLY sink in)

seems like someone pulled his buywalls

That's what I said yesterday - if BTC continues to rise, there are some dumps on the road here, but if it's just "fake pump" story, then expect to see some huge arrival   .

Hint: For everyone that wants to get in drk wait before bots going bonkers with each other for at least 10 days, thats when price did settle again.

not done this for ages.....

Just downloaded latest wallet (25)
Renamed wallet.dat >> old. Currently 49 weeks behind. Slowly got up to 8 connections. Now pretty much stuck.

It will download a meg or two in the first 2/3 minutes, but then network traffic will fall to a pitiful level. Is this normal?
If I restart, it will once again download the first 2 meg quickly again.....then back to dead slow with very occasional spikes on the network traffic graph.

Yep. Still averaging 2/3 KB/s. All ways the same. Short burst initially, then 2/3 KB/s.  

EDIT > ok thanks qwizzie. downloading bootstrap........

Could be way off base here, but I used to get exactly that is torrent downloads, and it was the service provider capping the bandwidth at certain times and/or you've gone over your monthly allowance and you've gone into an annoying web only browsing mode.
It could be flagging as a torrent due to percieved packet size similarity and transfer characteristics.

That's quite a signature you got yourself there Honest Tim. Man… that child_harold certainly has a way with words, doesn't he?
You should check out his signature… apparently time can change a man after all.

Or do you feel child_harold now speaks with a sporked tongue?
You can't have it both ways Tim

You'll forgive me for not being sympathetic to your problem.

At ease gents - i have no intention of posting any further in your thread.

Best of Luck with this cool project. Thanks.

here are some of my own thoughts on future wallet improvements :

- would like an option to create certain blockchain points, lets call them reindex restore points (like how windows use restore points).
you can then select to restore the blockchain through re-index to a state of for example a week ago and dont need to have the whole blockchain re-indexed

- would like to see important commandline options integrated in the GUI wallet (zapwallettxes, reindex, rescan) so you can activate them on next restart
through the click of a button.

- would like some info about possible new updates available in the GUI wallet so users will know its time to update

- would like to see the windows wallets sync and download as fast and as problemless as on Linux (which is impressively fast).
Right now windows wallets often require restarts to get a good syncing (even when on latest wallet version 61000) and are sluggish during sync (again even with wallet version 61000). This one is mostly adressed right now with v0.11.2.x on Github i think .. but i'm not totally sure.



 
  

whoa! This is like cheating!
bootstrap = "Back to the future in a can"