Litecoin QT Bootstrapping
First block of blk00000.dat from bootstrap.dat doesn't
I downloaded the bootstrap.dat file from the torrent at and placed it in the .bitcoin directory of a new Ubuntu installation of Bitcoin-Qt, ran the client and waited for the client to sync. In the blocks directory there are now blkxxxxx.dat files.
I expected the first 285 bytes of blk00000.dat to look like the ones at complete with message about the Chancellor, but instead my first 285 bytes start with:
and there’s no readable test. The magic number is there, but the rest of the data doesn’t look like the genesis block.
