...And it says: "Downloading headers... 4 days behind" with "socket recv error 10054" repeating in the debug.log. Tried to add a few nodes, but nothing changes. I'm behind standard home router. Please advise.
Found out what the problem was. The Cryptonite-QT is half-baked, it messed up some environment variables which Bitcoin-QT uses, resulting in breaking both itself and Bitcoin-QT.
Don't install Cryptonite-QT if you use default Bitcoin wallet! I've managed not to be forced to download the whole Bitcoin blockchain, but it was close.
All right...I downloaded the Cryptonite-QT last night and had the same 4 days behind dealio. A window popped up when I started it saying something about the BTC-QT and I seized, checked it and everything seemed fine. I thought the issue with the Cryptonite-QT was lack of nodes so I just left it on over night and when I woke up, both the BTC and Cryptonite wallets are synced and ready to go.
Now I read this thread and I don't know what to think...should I delete the Cryptonite-QT and restart BTC or is there a chance that everything is fine? Non technical guy here but I learn and pick things up as I go...