Windows 10, the new version which was updated just the other day, Bitcoin 14, the latest, an old Dell machine, I did have Bitcoin running ok earlier for a couple months, made successful transactions into the wallet which I have backed up, core started giving error messages, became a regular thing, I uninstalled it (it was v12 I think) and installed the latest, now it just says connecting to peers and simply sits there doing nothing. I uninstalled it again and reinstalled it, wondering if things had gone wrong, but it all seems ok except for it aint doing anything :-) Here's the log
2017-04-17 11:42:58 Bitcoin version v0.14.0
2017-04-17 11:42:58 InitParameterInteraction: parameter interaction: -whitelistforcerelay=1 -> setting -whitelistrelay=1
2017-04-17 11:42:59 GUI: "registerShutdownBlockReason: Successfully registered: Bitcoin Core didn't yet exit safely..."
2017-04-17 11:42:59 Assuming ancestors of block 00000000000000000013176bf8d7dfeab4e1db31dc93bc311b436e82ab226b90 have valid signatures.
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Default data directory C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using data directory C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using config file C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using at most 125 automatic connections (2048 file descriptors available)
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using 32 MiB out of 32 requested for signature cache, able to store 1048576 elements
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using 0 threads for script verification
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using BerkeleyDB version Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April 9, 2010)
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using wallet wallet.dat
2017-04-17 11:43:01 scheduler thread start
2017-04-17 11:43:01 init message: Verifying wallet...
2017-04-17 11:43:01 CDBEnv::Open: LogDir=C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\database ErrorFile=C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\db.log
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Bound to [::]:8333
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Bound to 0.0.0.0:8333
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Cache configuration:
2017-04-17 11:43:01 * Using 2.0MiB for block index database
2017-04-17 11:43:01 * Using 8.0MiB for chain state database
2017-04-17 11:43:01 * Using 290.0MiB for in-memory UTXO set (plus up to 286.1MiB of unused mempool space)
2017-04-17 11:43:01 init message: Loading block index...
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks\index
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Opened LevelDB successfully
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using obfuscation key for C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks\index: 0000000000000000
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Opened LevelDB successfully
2017-04-17 11:43:01 Using obfuscation key for C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate: 06cd9bb6457765a9
2017-04-17 11:43:22 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file = 0
2017-04-17 11:43:22 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=4, size=1102, heights=0...1, time=2009-01-03...2009-01-09)
2017-04-17 11:43:22 Checking all blk files are present...
2017-04-17 11:43:22 LoadBlockIndexDB: transaction index disabled
2017-04-17 11:43:22 LoadBlockIndexDB: hashBestChain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f height=0 date=2009-01-03 18:15:05 progress=0.000000
2017-04-17 11:43:22 init message: Rewinding blocks...
2017-04-17 11:43:24 init message: Verifying blocks...
2017-04-17 11:43:24 block index 22772ms
2017-04-17 11:43:24 init message: Loading wallet...
2017-04-17 11:43:24 nFileVersion = 140000
2017-04-17 11:43:24 Keys: 0 plaintext, 201 encrypted, 201 w/ metadata, 201 total
2017-04-17 11:43:24 wallet 500ms
2017-04-17 11:43:24 setKeyPool.size() = 99
2017-04-17 11:43:24 mapWallet.size() = 3
2017-04-17 11:43:24 mapAddressBook.size() = 2
2017-04-17 11:43:24 mapBlockIndex.size() = 462281
2017-04-17 11:43:24 nBestHeight = 0
2017-04-17 11:43:24 torcontrol thread start
2017-04-17 11:43:24 Imported mempool transactions from disk: 0 successes, 0 failed, 0 expired
2017-04-17 11:43:25 AddLocal([2001:0:4137:9e76:3420:2fda:ae92:dc1e]:8333,1)
2017-04-17 11:43:25 Discover: smallformten - 2001:0:4137:9e76:3420:2fda:ae92:dc1e
2017-04-17 11:43:25 init message: Loading addresses...
2017-04-17 11:43:26 Loaded 66722 addresses from peers.dat 989ms
2017-04-17 11:43:26 init message: Loading banlist...
2017-04-17 11:43:26 init message: Starting network threads...
2017-04-17 11:43:26 net thread start
2017-04-17 11:43:26 dnsseed thread start
2017-04-17 11:43:26 addcon thread start
2017-04-17 11:43:26 opencon thread start
2017-04-17 11:43:26 msghand thread start
2017-04-17 11:43:26 init message: Done loading
2017-04-17 11:43:26 GUI: Platform customization: "windows"
2017-04-17 11:43:26 GUI: PaymentServer::LoadRootCAs: Loaded 50 root certificates
2017-04-17 11:43:37 Loading addresses from DNS seeds (could take a while)
2017-04-17 11:43:38 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.14.0/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54149, peer=0
2017-04-17 11:43:38 142 addresses found from DNS seeds
2017-04-17 11:43:38 dnsseed thread exit
2017-04-17 11:44:00 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.14.0/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54156, peer=1
2017-04-17 11:44:06 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.1/: version 70014, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54159, peer=2
2017-04-17 11:44:12 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.14.0/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54161, peer=3
2017-04-17 11:44:18 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.2/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54163, peer=4
2017-04-17 11:44:24 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.2/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54166, peer=5
2017-04-17 11:44:53 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.14.0/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54176, peer=6
2017-04-17 11:45:10 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.14.0/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=81.109.35.225:54180, peer=7
2017-04-17 11:45:47 receive version message: /Snoopy:0.2.1/: version 70001, blocks=0, us=[2001:0:4137:9e76:3420:2fda:ae92:dc1e]:8333, peer=8
2017-04-17 11:48:14 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.2/: version 70015, blocks=462280, us=[2001:0:4137:9e76:3420:2fda:ae92:dc1e]:8333, peer=9
2017-04-17 12:01:21 receive version message: /Snoopy:0.2.1/: version 70001, blocks=0, us=[2001:0:4137:9e76:3420:2fda:ae92:dc1e]:8333, peer=10
2017-04-17 12:04:11 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.14.0(UASF-SegWit-BIP148)/: version 70015, blocks=462281, us=[2001:0:4137:9e76:3420:2fda:ae92:dc1e]:54540, peer=11
2017-04-17 12:05:01 receive version message: : version 70001, blocks=469762048, us=127.0.0.1:8333, peer=12
None of which means a great deal to me :-) Is it too soon to worry or should I expect to wait a few hours? I had a look at Windows firewall and it says it's letting the core access both private and public networks so I guess that isn't the problem. Incidentally, is it true one can torrent the whole blockchain these days? Thanks! Let me know if I've missed out anything.