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I am in the same boat except my wallet is up to date and 7.1.0. Im on ubuntux64 and the wallet wont even start the sync with 8 connections on the BC network. The process is not throwing any errors and the machine I'm on is fully functional. I have cleaned the bitcoin directory twice and rebooted twice as well. I am connected to the Internet as I am still trying to connect as I type this. As of right now after running for several hours, sync is at 0 of 207028 blocks with 8 connections.