diff --git a/balancer/balancer.go b/balancer/balancer.go
index 8ea39aabc3..3a05726032 100644
--- a/balancer/balancer.go
+++ b/balancer/balancer.go
@@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ func (b *Balancer) Push(work Task) {
 func (b *Balancer) balance(work chan Task) {
 	for {
 		select {
-		case task := <-work: // get task
-			b.dispatch(task) // dispatch the tasks
 		case w := <-b.done: // worker is done
 			b.completed(w) // handle worker
+		case task := <-work: // get task
+			b.dispatch(task) // dispatch the tasks
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/core/block_work.go b/core/block_work.go
index 353ab83aa1..d45559e2a5 100644
--- a/core/block_work.go
+++ b/core/block_work.go
@@ -13,8 +13,42 @@ type nonceResult struct {
 	valid bool
 }
 
+func balanceTxWork(b *balancer.Balancer, txs types.Transactions) {
+	if len(txs) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+
+	workSize := len(txs) / 4
+
+	errch := make(chan error, int(math.Ceil(float64(len(txs))/float64(workSize)))) // error channel (buffered)
+	for i := 0; i < len(txs); i += workSize {
+		max := int(math.Min(float64(i+workSize), float64(len(txs)))) // get max size...
+		batch := txs[i:max]                                          // ...and create batch
+
+		batchNo := i // batch number for task
+		// create new tasks
+		task := balancer.NewTask(func() error {
+			for i := 0; i < max-batchNo; i++ {
+				batch[i].FromFrontier()
+			}
+			return nil
+		}, errch)
+
+		b.Push(task)
+	}
+
+	// we aren't at all interested in the errors
+	// since we handle errors ourself.
+	go func() {
+		for i := 0; i < cap(errch); i++ {
+			<-errch
+		}
+		close(errch)
+	}()
+}
+
 func balanceBlockWork(b *balancer.Balancer, blocks []*types.Block, checker pow.PoW) chan nonceResult {
-	const workSize = 64
+	workSize := len(blocks) / 4
 
 	var (
 		nonceResults = make(chan nonceResult, len(blocks))                                      // the nonce result channel (buffered)
diff --git a/core/blockchain.go b/core/blockchain.go
index bd7d9f300b..5fca8a1584 100644
--- a/core/blockchain.go
+++ b/core/blockchain.go
@@ -1122,7 +1122,12 @@ func (self *BlockChain) InsertChain(chain types.Blocks) (int, error) {
 		tstart        = time.Now()
 
 		nonceChecked = make([]bool, len(chain))
+		txs          types.Transactions
 	)
+	for _, block := range chain {
+		txs = append(txs, block.Transactions()...)
+	}
+	balanceTxWork(self.balancer, txs)
 
 	// Start the parallel nonce verifier.
 	//nonceAbort, nonceResults := verifyNoncesFromBlocks(self.pow, chain)