[#ChainstateManager-IsInitialBlockDownload]
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Check whether we are doing an initial block download (synchronizing from disk or network).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<validation.h>`

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bool
IsInitialBlockDownload() const noexcept;
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== Return Value

true if the node is still in initial block download.


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