Reduce default number of blocks to check at startup #8611

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   sipa commented at 1:29 pm on August 27, 2016: member

   It is slow, overkill, and does not have a good record of actually catching many problems.
2. Reduce default number of blocks to check at startup 203f2121be
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   jonasschnelli commented at 1:34 pm on August 27, 2016: contributor

   ACK!
4. MarcoFalke added the label Block storage on Aug 27, 2016
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   MarcoFalke commented at 5:44 pm on August 27, 2016: member

   Tested ACK 203f2121be0a84e85f7dff9cca9a30387005954f (This is the value in my bitcoin.conf)
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   sipa commented at 5:46 pm on August 27, 2016: member

   I guess this obsoletes #8138.
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   luke-jr commented at 7:41 pm on August 27, 2016: member

   Any reason not to bump checklevel up to 4 at the same time?
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   fanquake commented at 4:18 am on August 28, 2016: member

   utACK 203f212
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   sipa commented at 11:18 am on August 28, 2016: member

   @luke-jr Do you have any evidence that that increases the chance for detecting corruption?
10. 
    dcousens commented at 1:24 am on August 29, 2016: contributor

    utACK 203f212
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    gmaxwell commented at 1:35 am on August 29, 2016: contributor

    ACK
12. 
    paveljanik commented at 7:23 am on August 29, 2016: contributor

    utACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8611/commits/203f2121be0a84e85f7dff9cca9a30387005954f
13. laanwj merged this on Aug 30, 2016
14. laanwj closed this on Aug 30, 2016

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    MarcoFalke commented at 10:07 am on September 9, 2016: member

    (Backported in a9429ca)
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