diff --git a/config/version.go b/config/version.go
index dc90112..73a22fb 100644
--- a/config/version.go
+++ b/config/version.go
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ import "github.com/blang/semver/v4"
 
 // right now it has to be manually changed
 // do we need to include git commitsha??
-var Version = semver.MustParse("3.4.97-1.DEROHE.STARGATE+26112021")
+var Version = semver.MustParse("3.4.98-1.DEROHE.STARGATE+25112021")
diff --git a/p2p/chain_sync.go b/p2p/chain_sync.go
index 6d573de..26d9a85 100644
--- a/p2p/chain_sync.go
+++ b/p2p/chain_sync.go
@@ -134,11 +134,11 @@ try_again:
 		switch {
 		case len(request.Block_list) < 20: // 20 blocks raw
 			i++
-		case len(request.Block_list) < 100: // 20 block with 5 steps
+		case len(request.Block_list) < 40: // 20 block with 5 steps
 			i += 5
-		case len(request.Block_list) < 1000: // 20 block with 50 steps
+		case len(request.Block_list) < 60: // 20 block with 50 steps
 			i += 50
-		case len(request.Block_list) < 10000: // 20 block with 500 steps
+		case len(request.Block_list) < 80: // 20 block with 500 steps
 			i += 500
 		default:
 			i = i * 2
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ try_again:
 				var orequest ObjectList
 				var oresponse Objects
 
-				//fmt.Printf("inserting blocks %d %x\n", (int64(i) + response.Start_topoheight), response.Block_list[i][:])
+				fmt.Printf("inserting blocks %d %x\n", (int64(i) + response.Start_topoheight), response.Block_list[i][:])
 				orequest.Block_list = append(orequest.Block_list, response.Block_list[i])
 				fill_common(&orequest.Common)
 				if err := connection.Client.Call("Peer.GetObject", orequest, &oresponse); err != nil {
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/node_inner.go b/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/node_inner.go
index e549e96..69b8485 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/node_inner.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/node_inner.go
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ func (in *inner) MarshalTo(store *Store, buf []byte, bucket string) (int, error)
 		done += tsize
 		tsize = binary.PutUvarint(buf[done:], uint64(len(bucket))) // bucket name length
 		done += tsize
-		done += copy(buf[done:], []byte(bucket)) // write bucket name
+		done += copy(buf[done: done+len(bucket)], []byte(bucket)) // write bucket name, panic if buffer is small
 
 	}
 
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ func (in *inner) MarshalTo(store *Store, buf []byte, bucket string) (int, error)
 
 		lhash, err := in.lhash(store)
 		errors = append(errors, err)
-		done += copy(buf[done:], lhash) // insert left hash
+		done += copy(buf[done: done+32], lhash) // insert left hash
 
 	}
 	switch getNodeType(in.right) {
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ func (in *inner) MarshalTo(store *Store, buf []byte, bucket string) (int, error)
 		done += tsize
 		rhash, err := in.rhash(store)
 		errors = append(errors, err)
-		done += copy(buf[done:], rhash) // insert right hash
+		done += copy(buf[done:done+32], rhash) // insert right hash
 	}
 
 	buf[0] = byte(done) // prepend with length
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ func parse_node(level byte, nodetype byte, buf []byte) (node, int, error) {
 		done += tsize
 
 		if len(buf) < done+HASHSIZE {
-			return nil, 0, xerrors.Errorf("Probably data corruption, input buffer has incomplete data")
+			return nil, 0, xerrors.Errorf("Probably data corruption, input buffer has incomplete data len(buf) %d done %d (%s)\n",len(buf),done, string(buf))
 		}
 
 		copy(left.hash[:], buf[done:done+HASHSIZE])
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/tree.go b/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/tree.go
index 1555a21..3cd040d 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/tree.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/deroproject/graviton/tree.go
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ func (t *Tree) commit_inner(gv *Snapshot, specialversion bool, level int, in *in
 
 	}
 
-	var buf [128]byte
+	var buf [384]byte
 	var done int
 	if done, err = in.MarshalTo(t.store, buf[:], t.treename); err == nil {
 
diff --git a/walletapi/wallet_transfer.go b/walletapi/wallet_transfer.go
index e43dbf0..cc5bc8a 100644
--- a/walletapi/wallet_transfer.go
+++ b/walletapi/wallet_transfer.go
@@ -214,11 +214,15 @@ func (w *Wallet_Memory) TransferPayload0(transfers []rpc.Transfer, ringsize uint
 	topoheight := int64(-1)
 	var block_hash crypto.Hash
 
-	{ // if wallet has been recently used, increase probability  of user's tx being successfully mined
+	{ // if wallet has not been recently used, increase probability  of user's tx being successfully mined
 		var zeroscid crypto.Hash
-		if w.getEncryptedBalanceresult(zeroscid).Topoheight+3 < daemon_topoheight {
+		if w.getEncryptedBalanceresult(zeroscid).Topoheight+2 <= daemon_topoheight {
+			topoheight = daemon_topoheight - 2
+		}
+		if w.getEncryptedBalanceresult(zeroscid).Topoheight+3 <= daemon_topoheight {
 			topoheight = daemon_topoheight - 3
 		}
+
 	}
 
 	_, _, block_hash, self_e, _ := w.GetEncryptedBalanceAtTopoHeight(transfers[0].SCID, topoheight, w.GetAddress().String())