I have a choice to make: We are renting a new place, and the landlords are giving me the choice between a full month's rent for a security deposit, or a third of that amount as a one-time fee. I have the money for the full security deposit, but I'll probably come out ahead if I pay the one-time fee and invest the difference. Should I pay $1000 to avoid giving a 1-year interest-free $3000 loan to my landlord?

My node is not connecting to peers. tor.service is running fine. command = bitcoin-cli getconnectioncount result = 0 if dnsseed=1 (for bitcoind), then bitcoind fails to start (problem with bitcoin.service) if dnsseed=0 , then I don't get any peers. is there a recent, decent list of nodes that I can connect to via IP address? I'm guessing the network problem is DNS related - it usually is.