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I just installed Bitcoin Core through brew on my mac. The blockchain is now downloading but it's slowing down, so I would like to restart it. Can I abort the process and restart it and will it pick up from the last block? Or will it start from scratch again?

Murch
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Ok, I just open anoter terminal window and do:

bitcoin-cli stop
Bitcoingraffiti
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    This answer could be improved by explaining why this works: it instructs the Bitcoin software to flush the current state of its synchronization progress to disk, gives it time to finish that and only then cleanly shuts down. Also check out [How to increase the speed of synchronisation?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/22367/5406) for some ideas how to configure the node to sync faster. – Murch Dec 10 '20 at 16:01