Hi everyone, I recently made my first bitcoin node and now I’m synchronizing the blockchain, and I noticed that as time went on it continued more and more slowly and that I went from having 10/11 peers to having 0 by passing a few time to have 1/2. Being new to the topic, I was wondering if you could help me understand better how it works and if there are ways to make it faster.

You can log in to your router’s web interface. Find the port forwarding section. Add a new port forwarding rule: Port: 8333 Protocol: TCP Destination IP: Your Umbrel device’s local IP address Save the changes.

How can I look at the Bitcoin Node protocol? Instead for the system I’m using it’s a Raspberry Pi 5 8Gb with 4Tb of external HDD

In the Umbrel Dashboard, right-click the Bitcoin Node icon. Then go to troubleshooting (yellow dot). [terminal]

Ok I’ve done it now how should I proceed?

Here you go umbrel_bitcoin_2024-08-30_21-37.log (274.7 KB)

Have you installed Electrs? If so, uninstall it and restart your Umbrel. Also try disabling remote Tor access.

Yes I have it installed, but I don’t have remote access with Tor activated, now I’ll try.

Nothing to do, I’ve been checking the node for more than a day now and the situation hasn’t improved. :smiling_face_with_tear: I always have 0 or 1/2 peers.

Have you contacted Umbrel Support directly?

No but maybe I’ll do it now, I’ll see what they tell me. Anyway, thanks so much for your help :saluting_face:

I have no peers 🥹

Bitcoin and Lightning

denny September 1, 2024, 10:32am 22

No problem! Sorry I couldn’t help you solve your problem.

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I have no peers 🥹

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