garlicoin.orgBootstrap file for Garlicoin Core
Speed up the first sync of Garlicoin Core by loading blocks from a file instead of from peers.
Updated weekly · last built November 4, 2026 · blocks 0–6,736,943 · 6.3 GB zip (11.7 GB unzipped). Newer blocks download from the network as usual.
SHA-256 0c20d8fce90e222e17a116a6c826ef0d60097447c846f5bf0e2c6a20fec39f4b bootstrap.zip.sha256 How to check it
How to use it
- Launch Garlicoin Core (garlicoin-qt) once to create the data directory.
- Close the client.
- Unzip the download and move
bootstrap.datinto the Garlicoin data directory. - Launch garlicoin-qt again to sync from disk. The status bar reads “Indexing blocks on disk”.
- Clean up. When syncing finishes (it can take an hour or more), the client renames the file to
bootstrap.dat.old. Close the client and delete it.
Where the file goes
%APPDATA%\Garlicoin\bootstrap.dat
Type %appdata% into the Explorer address bar.
~/Library/Application Support/Garlicoin/bootstrap.dat
~/.garlicoin/bootstrap.dat
Check the download
Optional. Run this where you saved the zip and compare the result with the SHA-256 at the top.
certutil -hashfile bootstrap.zip SHA256
In Command Prompt or PowerShell.
shasum -a 256 bootstrap.zip
sha256sum bootstrap.zip
Is my wallet synced?
In Garlicoin Core open Help → Debug window and type the number next to Current number of blocks below. On a server, run garlicoin-cli getblockcount.
Need help?
Ask in the Garlicoin Discord or on r/garlicoin. No peers? Add public nodes from network status.