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· @eturnerx · (edited)
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Ethereum Wallet never syncing? Use light mode.
I saw a social media post asking for help getting the Ethereum blockchain to synchronise. I recently had the same problem and tried many of the same things to resolve the issues. That is, I opened the ports 30303 and 30304 on my router, enabled uPnP. I even brought a new SSD because the drive I was syncing to was running at 100%. Still, the blockchain would kept lagging behind.

![Ethereum Splash Screen](http://ifps.io/ipfs/QmYJHafCo4wLMgSHR6J9tYDHdmy6PmPU5RABY2Pv4VEFpG)

I got Ethereum to fully sync with some spicy command line action that puts the geth program into a light mode. The instructions below are for Windows.

1. Open the command prompt
2. In the command prompt, change the current directory to the one that holds your local copy of geth.exe<br><code>cd C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Mist\binaries\Geth\unpacked</code><br>where XXXX is your username
3. Run this:<br><code>geth --syncmode "light" --verbosity 4</code>

Wait a few seconds before starting your wallet software as usual. You'll get a screen of debug spam. You can drop the verbosity level to 3, though at three you cannot see if geth is making connections to peers, so I leave verbosity on four.

Once you have an up to date blockchain (and you've done whatever business you needed to do), then I like to go back and run:<br><code>geth --syncmode "full"</code>
This will _eventually_ get a local copy of the full blockchain. But, for some reason, that mode seems to always be behind for me. Whenever I want to do anything that needs a synced up wallet, I go back to <code>--syncmode "light"</code>. I've had no ill effects switching back and forth between light and full syncmodes.

One other thing: If your wallet GUI says there is a new version of geth to download, then you'll need to stop the geth running in your command prompt (Ctrl-c) before you download the update. Once the the download is complete, then exit the wallet software and re-run Geth in your command prompt.

You'll see Ethereum now synchronises very quickly indeed. 

Steem on.
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Hey there! i just wanted to thank you for up-voting my post yesterday "Is steemit Run like a third world country?". I've been putting up quality work for months now. Basically votes like yours are the reason I haven't left the platform. Every now and then I get a vote like yours by other dolphins/whales that make it worth it. But I get plenty of votes that pay nothing or next to nothing. It's totally killing my motivation on here and I'm completely on the fence about leaving the system as I'm putting too much time into this for peanuts. I don't have time to read other people stuff and network all day either. I enjoy the content creation side.

I just spent hours putting up all sorts of cool real life photos of life in Bangkok. Like out of one of those books in the library that depict people in the real. You can see they all have similar up-votes, but someone with your voting power hit on a couple and suddenly they pay 10x more (a whole 1.80, instead of 18 cents) but that's lunch for me in Thailand.

Can you talk to some of your steemit dolphin/whale buddies and help me out? I think I'm highly unique. I do real good quality articles and now great real life photos of my travels around the world. Long term I'm a great asset/content creator for steemit. I'm finding that there are many hidden, underpaid, and talented content creators on here that are feeling a similar way.

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@eturnerx · (edited)
I'm too new to have buddies. But, your post got me thinking. I am the 1% here so, it's in my power to try change things. Best I act upper middle class and encourage the whales to upvote quality content. That means more networking for me. Keep up your thoughtful posts. I'll upvote where I can. So many minnows to feed :)
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Yes, many many hungry minnow mouths on here. I'm thinking straight talk socializing on here and taking the time to do it is the only option. I was just told before I even started blogging. Is that if you build it they will come. We'll I'm building and they are coming.  I have 99% minnows feeding me penny up-votes. 

Maybe I should have anticipated that and not even started. I'm not one to kiss ass and beg for attention. But I'm feeling you kind of have to if you want to actually earn on this platform. I feel very strange about it. Thanks for your insights and kind words.
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