I got this message as well , as far as I know the link is just a quicker way to download the blockchain and start recording current blocks . I haven ' t seen any evidence or reason to suggest anything is happening now , and the user didn ' t mention it . But , there would likely be value I ' m installing a Bitcoin client and keeping a copy of the blockchain either way , regardless of how you download it . Going forward it may hold important information <| sep |> German dissenters were imprisoned or executed . People like to fantasize that they ' d be different , that they ' d be the rebels and martyrs laying down their lives for what ' s right in these situations , but history tells us from this and comparable situations that ' s not true . Even without that coercion the Third Reich was doomed before soldiers ever reached German soil . These crimes were not attempts to target strategically important industries , or to punish True Believers for things they ' d done . It was just one more instance of a victorious army acting like bloodthirsty subhumans in a war full of such things , as tended to happen in every war until very recently . It ' s still disgusting especially by modern standards , though , and we don ' t have to act like these animals were doing something good every time they shoved a 14 yearold German girl down and violated her repeatedly while she screamed and cried and bled . You may also have noticed that nobody feels the need to invent excuses for the Germans ' similar depredations in the USSR it ' s accepted as selfevident how grossly evil that was , as it should be .