# Less than 4 Bitcoin network peers **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [May 20, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991 "2024-05-20T13:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cesarpim](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/cesarpim/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@cesarpim](https://bisq.community/u/cesarpim)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/1 "2024-05-20T13:41:07Z")
Hi! Most of the time I’m having only 2 or 3 Bitcoin network peers. Very rarely do I have 4 and it’s always for a short time. This doesn’t allow me to do almost any operation in Bisq. What can I do about this? ---
**Author:** ![Sepheyer](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/sepheyer/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Sepheyer](https://bisq.community/u/Sepheyer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/2 "2024-05-20T15:33:38Z")
I started having the very same issue. I think it has been like this for me since around April 26th, and it was getting progressively worth. As of yesterday I keep getting “Synchronizing with DAO” nonstop and it never completes. Because of this I can’t take offers - Bisq gives me an error message about invalid chain height. Hoping whatever this latest wave of malfunction is will go away soon. ---
**Author:** ![Sepheyer](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/sepheyer/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Sepheyer](https://bisq.community/u/Sepheyer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/3 "2024-05-20T22:47:14Z")
In Matrix chat @pazza83 gave advice: “You could try deselecting connect via Tor to improve your connection.” This helped me and my bitcoin peers are now at 5 while before they were 1-3. This is in the Settings \> Network Info \> Use Tor for Bitcoin Network. ---
**Author:** ![suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/suddenwhipvapor/32/3291_2.png) [@suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/u/suddenwhipvapor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/4 "2024-05-21T19:47:26Z")
not using tor is faster, but is not private, obviously. Regarding DAO sync then, you can only connect to seednodes throuth tor, and tor has been under heavy load lately: [Performance – Tor Metrics](https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html) ---
**Author:** ![NearBisq](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/nearbisq/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@NearBisq](https://bisq.community/u/NearBisq)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/5 "2024-11-09T19:02:22Z")
Do I need to connect to my own node? Because I don’t have one. ---
**Author:** ![MnM](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/mnm/32/257_2.png) [@MnM](https://bisq.community/u/MnM)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 10:35am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/6 "2024-11-10T10:35:24Z")
It’s just recommended, you’ll experience less issues. ---
**Author:** ![Zakzwijn](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/zakzwijn/32/2672_2.png) [@Zakzwijn](https://bisq.community/u/Zakzwijn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/7 "2024-11-12T21:05:12Z")
I had the same issue today. I suspect that in times of ‘extreme crypto greed’ like now tor is under heavy load like [suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/u/suddenwhipvapor) is also saying. Switching off connection via tor only made it worse, as I went from 3 to 2 peers. I resynced the DAO state from resources (settings → preferences → scroll down, rebuild dao state from resources) and shortly after that I went from 3 to 4 network peers again. With tor. Don’t know if it’s coincidence, but I thought it’s worth mentioning. Why are 4 bitcoin network peers necessary, could it be done with three also? What would be the reason not do do that? ---
**Author:** ![suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/suddenwhipvapor/32/3291_2.png) [@suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/u/suddenwhipvapor)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/less-than-4-bitcoin-network-peers/11991/8 "2024-11-12T23:33:06Z")
it’s for redundancy reasons, you could otherwise select the onion address of a single node, and place it in custom node under settings \> network, so bisq will be happy with just that one alone