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I had this error intermittently as well. After some digging it appears to be [this line](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-node/blob/97683d2ff1dd8e84bf9f7f338052cc0ed258961f/lib/services/bitcoind.js#L929) causing the problem. There is a hardcoded 60 time retry in the initial connect...

Just changing that one line didn't actually solve it for me, I also changed the other one [here](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-node/blob/97683d2ff1dd8e84bf9f7f338052cc0ed258961f/lib/services/bitcoind.js#L884) and that solved it.

@xelawafs Looks like I settled on 100,000, but it really just depends on your machine and the state of your data. I think I had it and 10,000 and had...

I tried to duplicate this today in node-twitter, and got similar behavior. For me the "magic number" was somewhere between 2100 and 2150.