Why is my bitcoin node not picking up transactions?

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Im running a very simple bitcoin core node that talks to a client. Whilst running on the testnet everythign works perfectly. As soon as I switch to live, the bitcoin node no longer seems to pickup transactions for payments into addresses it generates. I double checked the payments with blockchain.info and the payments were received and confirmed. Anyone know what is going here?

bitcoin.conf

prune=600
maxconnections=10
rpcthreads=2
rpcuser=#######################
rpcpassword=#############################
daemon=1
keypool=10000
walletnotify=############################
blocknotify=##########################
testnet=0
rpcallow=###############

The same config and was used for test/live with the obvious exception of toggling the testnet value.

xtremetom

Posted 2017-11-04T12:06:01.863

Reputation: 11

Define "pick up"?Pieter Wuille 2017-11-04T14:02:34.763

Did you wait for it to acquire the entire blockchain? Is it acquiring blocks?David Schwartz 2017-11-04T19:14:49.150

David, you hit the nail on the head. Block acquisition was crazy slow. Fixed that issue now :)xtremetom 2017-11-05T10:28:29.940

Answers

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Turns out the issue was that Bitcoin core had not finished downloading all blocks. It was running extremely slow. After allowing more connections everything sorted itself out overnight.

xtremetom

Posted 2017-11-04T12:06:01.863

Reputation: 11