HelloImRich

I've installed Bitcoin Core on Windows with the installer. I don't know how to increase the number of connections. Currently, it's always 8.

Several sources on the internet claim that custom configuration belong to a bitcoin.conf in the AppData/Bitcoin directory. But that doesn't work for me. I tried. In fact, I found out that the configuration including the datadir is currently contained in the registry. Not a single source I could found tells me that the registry contains these config values, so I'm kinda bummed out by this.

In any case, does that mean that I have to add a config value in the registry? And if so, how? The config names are different, namely, the registry config names are

Since today, no image on Twitter can be loaded. If I deactivate VPN, it works. I tried it with Firefox and Chrome, for both browsers the same behavior. On Chome for Android it works for some reason.

Does someone have the same problem?

Edit: For people having the same problem, the solution found by alexpartyman is to deactivate the newly introduced CyberSec function in NordVPN.

Getting enough utxos for a coinjoin takes ages. We need more people!

Native segwit bech32 addresses for Bitcoin when?

Does someone have a tutorial to setup a lightning network node on main net? I'd like to be one of the first 200 people who lose their bitcoins for the greater good. I already have a full Bitcoin node.