BTCGPU: How can I sync BTG mainnet, before "Error: mainnet is not ready for launch."

How can I sync BTG mainnet, before “Error: mainnet is not ready for launch.”

$ ./bgoldd
Error: mainnet is not ready for launch.

It’s too later to sync mainnet blockchain after mainnet lauch at “12th November 2017 (19:00 UTC)”.

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  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments: 23 (6 by maintainers)

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We are still working on a few changes. When all the necessary changes are ready, we will allow mainnet mode.

The Bitcoin datadir is not compatible with BTG. So you can’t copy it directly. I’ve added a command line flag called -bootstrap. In this mode the BTG client can connect to Bitcoin p2p network and download the blockchain history before the fork height. It’s a little tricky to use this flag because you still need to add some Bitcoin node to the client. Otherwise it will not get any peers.