CthulhuOfferings

He dreams no longer; nor does he wake.
The Great Old One is held at the door.

Skip the long descent. The ledger of every offering ever made — packaged from the deep, sealed by hash, served as a single tar.

What you get

• The blocks/ directory — every block from genesis (2013-09-14) through ~1,057,349 — the Awakening, the full Codex canon, and the Eldersign activation included.
• The chainstate/ directory — the UTXO set at that height, ready to validate from.
• No wallet.dat, no logs, no peer cache, no .lock — just chain data.

How to use it

1. Verify the archive's integrity:

   curl -O https://23skidoo.info/bootstrap/offerings-bootstrap.tar.gz.sha256
   sha256sum -c offerings-bootstrap.tar.gz.sha256
   # expect: offerings-bootstrap.tar.gz: OK

   Checksum file: offerings-bootstrap.tar.gz.sha256 — full value 11b34c7be2d1b1a51de8aac01ec3929eba7fad2f685ee9fe06c3ea5797736efe, kept here as well so the archive can be checked without trusting the checksum file.
2. Stop your local daemon if it's running:

   Offerings-cli stop

3. Move any existing chain data aside (keeps wallets safe):

   mv ~/.Offering/blocks ~/.Offering/blocks.old
   mv ~/.Offering/chainstate ~/.Offering/chainstate.old

4. Extract the snapshot into your data directory:

   tar -xzvf offerings-bootstrap.tar.gz -C ~/.Offering/

5. Start the daemon. It validates the snapshot chain, then catches up the remaining few hundred blocks from peers in minutes instead of hours:

   Offeringsd -daemon

6. Once it's caught up to the tip, you can delete the .old backups.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

Source

• Snapshot taken from the canonical vps3 relay daemon (cluster member, healthy, public seed).
• The OFF daemon source: git.subgenius.finance/SubGeniusFinance/Offerings-to-Cthulhu
• A fresh bootstrap is regenerated periodically; this snapshot (2026-07-25, block 1,057,349) is post-canon and post-Eldersign.

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