What do you think? Should I shut down Bitcoin Core, or should I let it finish?
How exactly did you "
threw in" your wallet.dat file to Bitcoin Core v25.0? Please describe the steps that you did.
Depending on how you did it and its timing, if it rescanned or not, the blocks with the transactions may have been skipped.
Letting it finish is still recommended since you can rescan later, that's only if you didn't enabled "
prune block storage" setting
which would prevent you from scanning those old blocks without redownloading the entire blockchain.
If you want to finish it, I'd recommend to disable the setting and start over.
Otherwise, if you don't have the disk space, make sure that the wallet is properly loaded (
use "Restore Wallet") before starting over initial block download again.
On a side note, the latest release version is v26.0 as you can see above the forum menu.
There's no "
official Bitcoin website" BTW.