Notes from the team building Stealth.

Official snapshot support ships this week. Launch a fully functional Stealth client in under an hour instead of the days or weeks a fresh sync from genesis has historically required. The implementation covers both stealthCORE (blocks + txleveldb) and stealthPRIVATE, with a GPG-signed manifest that lets operators verify snapshot integrity against the development key before the client touches a single byte.

Inside: the five-step install flow, what a snapshot actually contains, where it sits between “full genesis sync” and “trust a third party,” and the download-stealth-snapshot helper that will ship with the next build.

Stealth v3.3.0.0 cuts the StealthCoind RAM footprint by 57.6% — from 15.1 GB to 6.4 GB — and reduces boot times by about 65%. Getting well under the 12 GB threshold represents a potential significant savings in server costs. The updated client can run for nearly thirty more years before a server upgrade beyond 24 GB RAM is required.

Inside: the 50-year RAM projection, what changed in the block index, how block indices accumulated derived data across Stealth's history from PeerCoin's PoS heritage through qPoS / Junaeth (nStakeModifier, nTxVolume, vDeets …), and the card-catalog analogy for what moved from memory to disk.