<p>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.</p>

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xtremetom
<p>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?</p>

<pre><code>bitcoin.conf

prune=600
maxconnections=10
rpcthreads=2
rpcuser=#######################
rpcpassword=#############################
daemon=1
keypool=10000
walletnotify=############################
blocknotify=##########################
testnet=0
rpcallow=###############
</code></pre>

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

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2017-11-04T14:02:34.763Z
Define "pick up"?
Pieter Wuille
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2017-11-04T19:14:49.150Z
Did you wait for it to acquire the entire blockchain? Is it acquiring blocks?
David Schwartz
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2017-11-05T10:28:29.940Z
David, you hit the nail on the head. Block acquisition was crazy slow. Fixed that issue now :)
xtremetom
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Why is my bitcoin node not picking up transactions?
xtremetom
# Why is my bitcoin node not picking up transactions?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-04)

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.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, bitcoind

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Define "pick up"?  
> **username_2**: Did you wait for it to acquire the entire blockchain? Is it acquiring blocks?  
> **username_0**: David, you hit the nail on the head. Block acquisition was crazy slow. Fixed that issue now :)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2017-11-05. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

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.


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