<p>I have had issues downloading Bitcoin Core, where the download would get stuck/frozen and not progress for hours.</p>
<p>The last time this happened I closed the Bitcoin Core window and was met with a &quot;Bitcoin Core is shutting down&quot; window which also just sat there for hours. After getting frustrated at no apparent lack of progress just to close down the application, I force closed it using Task Manager. On restarting the application I got the &quot;Replaying Blocks&quot; screen which I understand is the resyncing of the data that didn't sync properly due to the force close.</p>
<p>The last time I tried this, the &quot;Replaying Blocks&quot; reached 100% and then transitioned into the Bitcoin Core download as usual. However this time around, I reached 90% of the blockchain download at which point progress froze for several hours again. I force closed, Replaying Blocks has been running for 24 hours and I'm back at 100%, however it is not transitioning into the blockchain download as I had hoped.</p>
<p>What can I do please? I'm exasperated at what should have been the &quot;easy&quot; part of the process in setting up a node.</p>
<p>I'm using Windows 11 and Bitcoin Core v26.1.0</p>
<p>My <code>debug.log</code> file shows &quot;Rolling forward&quot; up until what looks like it could be the block height that my download had reached, and then it reverts to &quot;Flushed fee estimates to fee_estimates.dat&quot; every hour for the last 5 hours.</p>

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2024-04-15T14:44:29.783Z
Does your node have any peers?
Murch
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Have you figured out a solution to this? I'm having the same problem
tofu
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Stuck on "Replaying Blocks" 100% after a forced close
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# Stuck on "Replaying Blocks" 100% after a forced close

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-04-15)

I have had issues downloading Bitcoin Core, where the download would get stuck/frozen and not progress for hours.

The last time this happened I closed the Bitcoin Core window and was met with a "Bitcoin Core is shutting down" window which also just sat there for hours. After getting frustrated at no apparent lack of progress just to close down the application, I force closed it using Task Manager. On restarting the application I got the "Replaying Blocks" screen which I understand is the resyncing of the data that didn't sync properly due to the force close.

The last time I tried this, the "Replaying Blocks" reached 100% and then transitioned into the Bitcoin Core download as usual. However this time around, I reached 90% of the blockchain download at which point progress froze for several hours again. I force closed, Replaying Blocks has been running for 24 hours and I'm back at 100%, however it is not transitioning into the blockchain download as I had hoped.

What can I do please? I'm exasperated at what should have been the "easy" part of the process in setting up a node.

I'm using Windows 11 and Bitcoin Core v26.1.0

My `debug.log` file shows "Rolling forward" up until what looks like it could be the block height that my download had reached, and then it reverts to "Flushed fee estimates to fee\_estimates.dat" every hour for the last 5 hours.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, synchronization, windows

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Does your node have any peers?  
> **username_2**: Have you figured out a solution to this? I'm having the same problem  

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