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1- Start with a clean slate, including these nodes (erase other files and KEEP only your wallet).
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Thank you, I do keep dated incremental backups.
I just added the addnode into the .conf file since it states on the main (first) post that the hard coded peers/nodes are down and to add those to configuration start syncing.
So I did.
I think there is a big split happening most the block explorers are frozen and the 3 exchanges are on different chains. Some peps can deposit to some of them but not the others and vice versa.
Thank you anyway.