Just wanted to say 'thankyou' for helping me - believe it or not it seems to have helped a little!!
i.e. it have moved forward a bit and is now reporting "Synching Headers (0.00%)" and it is stuck there!
10 years and 42 weeks behind since I deleted all the data in chainstates and blockchain etc..
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I have reset my router and all ports including 8333 are open
Now, the dat files were successfully recreated, but the connection issue still persists.
Have you included any start-up parameter to your Bitcoin-qt/cli (
or shortcut) before? If yes, try to start it normally by removing them.
You can also try to reset your "
bitcoin.conf" (
delete every line you've added) to try to launch it with default parameters.
This seems to be the issue:
I also changed my port from 9050 to 8333 in bitcoin-qt - since everyone else seems to be using 8333
Are you referring to your proxy setting? Because that setting doesn't refer to the port used by Bitcoin, but rather the port used by your proxy server. The setting is of no relevance if you're not using a proxy. In fact, if you intent to follow BitCryptex's advice and connect using Tor as a proxy, you'll need to change it back (9050 is the default setting because that's what Tor normally uses).
Because the advice written online is for your router, modem and firewall; not bitcoin-qt's proxy setting.