I saw a social media post asking for help getting the Ethereum blockchain to synchronise. I recently had the same problem and tried many of the same things to resolve the issues. That is, I opened the ports 30303 and 30304 on my router, enabled uPnP. I even brought a new SSD because the drive I was syncing to was running at 100%. Still, the blockchain would kept lagging behind.
I got Ethereum to fully sync with some spicy command line action that puts the geth program into a light mode. The instructions below are for Windows.
- Open the command prompt
- In the command prompt, change the current directory to the one that holds your local copy of geth.exe
cd C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Mist\binaries\Geth\unpacked
where XXXX is your username - Run this:
geth --syncmode "light" --verbosity 4
Wait a few seconds before starting your wallet software as usual. You'll get a screen of debug spam. You can drop the verbosity level to 3, though at three you cannot see if geth is making connections to peers, so I leave verbosity on four.
Once you have an up to date blockchain (and you've done whatever business you needed to do), then I like to go back and run:geth --syncmode "full"
This will eventually get a local copy of the full blockchain. But, for some reason, that mode seems to always be behind for me. Whenever I want to do anything that needs a synced up wallet, I go back to --syncmode "light". I've had no ill effects switching back and forth between light and full syncmodes.
One other thing: If your wallet GUI says there is a new version of geth to download, then you'll need to stop the geth running in your command prompt (Ctrl-c) before you download the update. Once the the download is complete, then exit the wallet software and re-run Geth in your command prompt.
You'll see Ethereum now synchronises very quickly indeed.
Steem on.
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I'm too new to have buddies. But, your post got me thinking. I am the 1% here so, it's in my power to try change things. Best I act upper middle class and encourage the whales to upvote quality content. That means more networking for me. Keep up your thoughtful posts. I'll upvote where I can. So many minnows to feed :)
Hang in there if you can. These are no easy times for a platform like Steem though I'm hoping quality writers like yourself can graduate into dolphin-hood soon. I'll do what I can with the whales.
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I bought my way into the (almost) 1% because I see the opportunities here. This is a third world economy and it needs transforming into first world for my investment to pay off. Welcome to Steem btw. Good to see you diversify from YouTube etc.
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