Cthulhu
Offerings
The time draws near.
The return of The Great Old One is upon us.
— The Frozen Ledger —
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 ~980,173. - 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
- Verify the archive's integrity:
sha256sum offerings-bootstrap.tar.gz # expect: 874d479027780f6f5b7c96dae17d7e382cf6dcca09e09be4b494b01b15ec524b
- Stop your local daemon if it's running:
Offerings-cli stop
- Move any existing chain data aside (keeps wallets safe):
mv ~/.Offering/blocks ~/.Offering/blocks.old mv ~/.Offering/chainstate ~/.Offering/chainstate.old
- Extract the snapshot into your data directory:
tar -xzvf offerings-bootstrap.tar.gz -C ~/.Offering/
- 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
- Once it's caught up to the tip, you can delete the
.oldbackups.
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: github.com/SubGeniusFinance/Offerings-to-Cthulhu
- A fresh bootstrap will be regenerated periodically (next after the canon-reading concludes).