Desktop wallet locking

I'm having trouble finding the link but there is an archive you can download containing most of the history, useful if you're having trouble with the initial sync. Hopefully someone else can link that for you, or you can try searching around for it. Short of that just try leaving your wallet unlocked for a while and see if it eventually catches up. Also make sure your firewall/port forwarding is properly configured.

 

As for the representatives I believe the default ones used by the wallet are run by the dev team. Here is another page from the wiki about running a representative. Here is a list of representatives as well. To be clear there's nothing stopping you from being your own representative and there is no balance requirement to do so; you can be a representative with 0 balance.

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