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    "Bitcoin dashboard no longer flickers errors during initial chain sync. When bitcoind is busy validating a fresh block, its RPC thread can block for five to ten seconds \u2014 long enough that the old 10-second client timeout was rejecting roughly 30% of UI calls even on a perfectly healthy node. The RPC client now retries transient timeouts transparently (3 attempts, 500ms + 1500ms backoffs between them) and only surfaces errors that bitcoind itself reported. Calls that used to flash red on the dashboard during sync now just take a second or two longer and return correct data.",
    "Connection-refused against bitcoind is still fast-failed \u2014 a genuinely-dead daemon is reported in under a second, so real outages are still surfaced immediately. The retry wrapper only engages on timeouts and transport-level errors, never on well-formed bitcoind error responses, so real RPC bugs are not masked.",
    "Stress-tested against a syncing pruned node on live hardware: 20 out of 20 getblockchaininfo calls succeed under load (previously ~60% success), with worst-case latency under 50 seconds during peak IBD catch-up and sub-100ms once blocks are cached."
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