# Time spent verifying blocks

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/time-spent-verifying-blocks/7377>\
**Category:** zcashd client\
**Created:** [November 5, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/time-spent-verifying-blocks/7377 "2016-11-05T21:34:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Voluntary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/voluntary/32/4343_2.png) [@Voluntary](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Voluntary)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/time-spent-verifying-blocks/7377/1 "2016-11-05T21:34:10Z")

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Zcash is the first full-node wallet I’ve had any experience with so maybe this is normal but I notice that every time I start zcashd quite some time is spent verifying blocks - even moreso on a slower system that I occasionally use. My concern is that at this point in time the Zcash blockchain is still quite small but what is this processing time going to be like a few months / years down the track?

btw I’m referring to this zcash-cli error soon after starting zcashd:

~$ zcash-cli getinfo  
error: {“code”:-28,“message”:“Verifying blocks…”}

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**Author:** ![Voluntary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/voluntary/32/4343_2.png) [@Voluntary](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Voluntary)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/time-spent-verifying-blocks/7377/2 "2016-11-06T08:46:26Z")

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The delay I noticed could be attributed to the fact that I’d just upgraded v1.0.1