I¹ am trying to sync Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 on my Desktop with 16 GB RAM and an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, but it is taking forever even to get past the header synchronization. It tells me that it will take over 3.5 years to synchronize. 3 hours later, my node is still in Header Synchronization: I have a decent internet connection and am connected to my router via wifi I downloaded Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 from bitcoincore.org I’m using an internal hard drive I have ten connections, but have only received about 340 kB across my eight outbound connections in the ~10 minutes minutes I have tried to add a few nodes from bitnodes.io via addnode <ip> onetry to perhaps learn about more peers (and the added nodes show up when I call getaddednodeinfo as past connections) I have over 365 GB of free disk space Any ideas what else I should try? ¹Asking for a friend. from Recent Questions - Bitcoin Stack Exchange https://ift.tt/Kyf3oHE via IFTTT