Bitcoin Core continually timing out

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Hello all,

I’m running an original Start9 Embassy connected directly to a fibre optic modem with decent speeds.

After flashing the new OS and setting the embassy up, I downloaded Bitcoin core.

Since then it has been slowly syncing but is only at 60% after a few weeks.

I tried to find the answer on other posts and it seems it could be because the size of the download has grown substantially since 2021.
Is Hardware my issue here or could it be something else?

Thank you in advance for any pointers

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You many explanations you’ve found here in the forum and probably elsewhere are correct. An older Start9 Embassy is an Raspberry Pi based device, which just isn’t really capable of running Bitcoin in 2025 due to the hugely expanded UTXO set after stamps, ordinals and monkey JPEGs on the blockchain.

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Thank you for such a quick reply!

I will look at updating my hardware.

Aside from Bitcoin Core do you think other services will still run well on the older hardware?

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It can run most other things reasonably well.

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I still have two pies and I use them for backups to vault warden and they run ghost really good, file browser, nostr relay etc. Honestly my pi is super reliable and I seem to have to restart less frequently than I do my pure :slight_smile:

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Thank you both for all your help and quick replies!

As always this Community is amazing

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