Make sure you put the releases on github as well, please. Also, if you could update the main post and state 'there's an update!' so people glancing to check can see status quickly, that would be great!
Interesting project, I'm watching. Don't disappear and interesting things could potentially continue.

may luck be yours.

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Strange things seem to happen even when not resync'ing from scratch... Two of my systems upon restarting and being a few days behind, seem to both slowly catch up at the same time. I think potentially a few more core nodes on the network could fix your problem.
I would be willing to setup a few for you if you'd like. I have servers all over the world.