FYI: If your wallet is not Encrypted, ie: you don't have to unlock it to stake. It can slow down your initial syncing dramatically. To correct this you can encrypt your wallet or if you don't want to encrypt your wallet, run zeitcoin with the following parameters, zeitcoin-qt.exe -gen=0 , this will sync without trying to stake, once you are fully synced , restart zeitcoin normally to stake your coins,
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