Dogecoin 1 4 out of sync autobiography

Update February 28, 2021:Dogecoin Core 1.14.3 has been released and significantly improves the synchronization speed.

The method described in the original post below is no longer be necessary.

This article assumes that you have backed up your wallet and updated to the most recent version of Dogecoin Core (currently 1.14.2).

At the time of writing, you can get a torrent here which contains blocks until January 29, 2021.

Note that it is not a single Bootstrap.dat file, instead it contains the blocks and chainstate directory.

You can find further information on the Dogecoin Discord (in the FAQ section), the Dogecoin Core GitHub and the Dogecoin subreddit.

Once synchronized, consider forwarding port 22556 to help the network.

This should give you over a hundred connections instead of the usual 8:

This will, of course, create significant network activity as can be seen in Dogecoin Core under Help > Debug