The wallet does not synchronize with the network for hours. For some reason, the blockchain got corrupted (or the index got corrupted), now everything is fine, but damn thing does not sync in a reasonable time.
Please tell me your wallet version and your Operating System,
and tell me more, it should work blazing fast (and it does).
number of coins, you are staking and and wallets debugfile (debug.log)
are also valuable informations.
If you are in, since client/wallet version one and now start over again, after a long time,
just delete database and the peers.dat and use WALLET version two (called prerelease in the OP).
That should sort out 99% of all problems, we are on hard-coded nodes since last release
and the active Network will have evolved away from older ip's
have fun
Matthias
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