# Seeing Sol/s before full blockchain downloads

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514 "2016-12-07T13:38:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@fibonacci](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/fibonacci)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514/1 "2016-12-07T13:38:31Z")

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When I start up the zcashd I’m seeing Sol/s before the full blockchain downloads. In the past the Sol/s would be 0 until the full blockchain was downloaded.

Does this mean I’m mining on an old block?

Is there a CLI command that let’s me see the block I’m mining?

Will someone test this on their system to see if they see the same behavior?

Running the Mac port. 1.0.3

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**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514/2 "2016-12-07T14:07:02Z")

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that is a weird one, I"m not sure

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**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514/3 "2016-12-07T14:07:26Z")

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none of the mining code was touched in my port, so whatever is going on it shouldn’t be mac specific

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**Author:** ![fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@fibonacci](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/fibonacci)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514/4 "2016-12-07T14:20:28Z")

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Does this happen on your machine or is it just me. 🙂

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**Author:** ![anon47418038](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@anon47418038](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/anon47418038)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514/5 "2016-12-07T15:13:45Z")

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I’m not mining on it, so I don’t know if it would do that or not! And I keep the chain on it synced all the time so when I need to stop zcashd to test new releases I’m not stuck resyncing forever (aside from when I test a new release on a VM)

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**Author:** ![fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@fibonacci](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/fibonacci)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/seeing-sol-s-before-full-blockchain-downloads/12514/6 "2016-12-08T01:32:50Z")

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Has anyone on their Lynux release tested this? Are you seeing Sol/s before the blockchain syncs?