I think I got the kinks all worked out of 1.5.5. I am finalizing some testing and should have it released today or tomorrow.  On my big wallet with a TON of weight I get about 40-50% orphan rate. On some smaller wallets I get much lower. But the wallet no longer gets caught up in the millions of unresponsive orphans.  And when no new blocks are in, the wallet drops to 1-2% CPU.

Partiality due to fact that HBN does 5 to 6 times more blocks per day.  There are things that can be done, including doing a headers first and then sync. That is in the works for sure.

Making a Java client sounds great.  But it seems I am alone here and no one else is willing to step up and help with code. BTC has 100s of coders, PeerCoin, NVC, LTC have 50 to 10. Even HYP has 4 or 5. So far for a community coin, I have done 99.8% of the code work.  I would love to mess around with Java but based on the current work load, its about a 2020 goal. 

I think I got the kinks all worked out of 1.5.5. I am finalizing some testing and should have it released today or tomorrow.  On my big wallet with a TON of weight I get about 40-50% orphan rate. On some smaller wallets I get much lower. But the wallet no longer gets caught up in the millions of unresponsive orphans.  And when no new blocks are in, the wallet drops to 1-2% CPU.

Revered Tranz,

Is there a working HBN pool right now? One linked in first page of the thread all of them doesn't work.
Thank you sir.

I am running 1.5.3 and my wallet is stuck on block 5501180 or about 1 day left. anyone having the same issue or know a solution to my problem.

I was able to mine some blocks with 5 connections. The chain I am on is 8 blocks behind https://chainz.cryptoid.info/hbn.

Nice one   I like to test the new version

1.5.5.1 version
4 days synced very quickly, then it has refused to sync any further, restarts make no difference
This is what is in the debug log for hours without syncing anymore.

2017-08-09 02:41:30 Misbehaving: 173.244.48.198:53131 (3000 -> 3100) BAN THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
2017-08-09 02:41:30 ERROR: ProcessBlock() : block with too little proof-of-work
2017-08-09 02:41:30 Misbehaving: 173.244.48.198:53131 (3100 -> 3200) BAN THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
2017-08-09 02:41:30 ERROR: ProcessBlock() : block with too little proof-of-work
2017-08-09 02:41:30 Misbehaving: 173.244.48.198:53131 (3200 -> 3300) BAN THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
2017-08-09 02:41:30 ERROR: ProcessBlock() : block with too little proof-of-work
2017-08-09 02:41:30 Misbehaving: 173.244.48.198:53131 (3300 -> 3400) BAN THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
2017-08-09 02:41:30 ERROR: ProcessBlock() : block with too little proof-of-work
2017-08-09 02:41:30 Misbehaving: 173.244.48.198:53131 (3400 -> 3500) BAN THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
2017-08-09 02:41:30 ERROR: ProcessBlock() : block with too little proof-of-work
2017-08-09 02:41:30 ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK, prev=35cbc2069ff9a30d6cb4
2017-08-09 02:41:49 connection from 98.71.70.41:57555 dropped (banned)
2017-08-09 02:42:33 ping timeout: 1200.030000s
2017-08-09 02:42:38 connection from 92.30.32.29:63078 dropped (banned)
2017-08-09 02:42:52 connection from 104.207.128.75:63738 dropped (banned)
2017-08-09 02:44:52 connection from 104.230.143.200:33369 dropped (banned)


╥Aztek