litecoin-project/litecoin — pull request #177 by Elbandi (2014-11-02 01:35:03+00:00)
Title: Makebootstrap

Hi,

i had to export bootstrap file from some favorite altcoins. There is already an export script, but that is very slow, because blocks are queried from rpc. So i added some funcions to the coin's codebase, so the bootstrap export is accelerated by this.
The are two commit in this push: one made the export by running the daemon/wallet. the second allow made the bootstrap in a running daemon/wallet.

The command line parameter required a filename or filepath. The bootstrap data is exported to this file. There are another two helper parameter, this allow exporting a part of the blockchain: the first blocks (minheight) and the last blocks (maxheight).

The rpc command do the same: require a filename/filepath parameter, and the optional first/last blockheight.
If no first/last are given, the whole blockchain is exported (1..bestblockheight).

If you like this feature, feel free to give some notes.