That bootstrap test was on mainnet, Nano runs on basic consumer hardware, and is decentralized. The lack of smart contract support is intentional - there's no desire for non-money usecases to compete with Nano's core hard money usecase:

~38 hours for ~150M blocks, 72-96 hours on mainnet:

TBD on mainnet with all cementing functions enabled, but here are the test results. 200M+ blocks in 7 hours:

Topology bootstrap for fast ledger catch-up 👀 Nano V29 is going to be awesome

Interestingly, my Nano node's vote weight and delegator count continues to increase during the bear market 🤔 Long-term holders 💪🏾

Nice update from the Nano Foundation (George Coxon) today 🥳 "The vision is simple: do one thing and do it well. A feeless, instant, energy-efficient currency. That's it and always has been. V29 is in progress and potentially moving to testing soon. As volunteers, our job is..."

Additional info from Piotr:

Piotr's been working on an improved bootstrap strategy that could massively improve bootstrap times for Nano Local test net results: ~5 hours for a full bootstrap, ~10K BPS Something like this may also improve mainnet max CPS, since out of sync nodes can resync more quickly 👀

Looks like Ricki & Piotr have been working on a potential implementation for Colin's split block table proposal 👀 If fully implemented, this could bring ~50% disk savings (on LMDB), and a significant speed up for slow storage (especially non-SSDs) 🔥 Nano efficiency++

Another cool Nano PR from Piotr: