Topic: Wallets stuck on sync (Read 166 times)

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running core in pruning mode does not cut down syncing times... It only saves diskspace!

You have 2 problems: core syncing and electrum syncing

Electrum syncing
should not take more than 5-10 minutes, since you only download the block headers... If it takes longer than a couple of hours, you can have one of the following problems:
1) connected to a "bad" node
2) network problems on your side
3) running an old, or bad version of electrum

the sollutions to these problems
1) click on the green/organge/red button at the bottom right corner, disable automatic server selection and pick a different server
2) check your own router, firewall,...
3) make sure you downloaded electrum from electrum.org and check ThomasV's sig

A last sollution that can always be tried in general is:
downloading the latest version, installing it on a different pc, restore your wallet from the seed phrase, stop the wallet, reboot the pc, restart the pc, load the wallet again and see if it works now...

Core syncing
Core will download more than 200 Gb of data (blocks). It will verify each and every block, and all transactions in every block. It will build a utxo dabase and constantly update it... This takes time...
A good CPU, sufficient memory,  an SSD and fast internet might cut down this syncing time, but you can never expect your wallet to be fully sync'd in less than a day (and such a synctime would require a really expensive dedicated server)

If you have really, really good reasons for which you HAVE to HAVE access to your funds, there are ways to export your private keys and import them into an SPV wallet (like electrum). Offcourse, you'd have to solve your electrum syncing problem first...

As far as Electrum goes, its a lightweight wallet, meaning it won't take that long for it to synchronized as you don't need download the current Bitcoin blockchain size. As for Bitcoin core, its different though, there is a way called pruning. wherein it will allows one to run a smaller version of full blockchain. For technical questions for Electrum, you can go visit this board: Electrum. For Bitcoin Core, you can post your questions here, Development & Technical Discussion. @bL4nkcode, have said, don't worry about your money, you just need to wait until it goes full sync.

AFAIK using electrum as lightweight wallet will sync its client fast but not on bitcoin core client since it will download the whole blockchain which I guess is more than 100 GB right now, and if you have a slow internet connection then it might take more than 12 days to fully sync.

And as long your transaction of £50 is confirmed through the network already then there's no need to worry all you need is to wait for core until it fully sync. You can use blockexplorer.com to check (confirm or not) its status by yourself. Or you can post here your receiving address so we can check it, only if you mind to post here your wallet.

So I bought some Bitcoins from CoinCorner with a purchase in mind. I sent £50 each in BTC to an Electrum wallet and a Bitcoin Core, on Linux, on a decent machine. Both wallets are now synchronising endlessly. The Bitcoin Core one is telling me that it will take 12 days. That sometimes increases to six weeks. I've googled and it seems that a lot of folk are reporting insane sync times... When can I expect to see my money?