Persistent peers drain resources and hurt validator nodes. Use them only from trusted sources like your own sentry nodes. Seed nodes are the way to go for bootstrapping: they fill up your address book and keep you from missing blocks. We've got a seed node for celestia if you need one.
sed -i -e "s|^seeds *=.*|seeds = \"2030b8d022cd3c65b6f267943df82d69c3e6ba64@celestia-rpc.tienthuattoan.com:26656\"|" $HOME/.celestia-app/config/config.toml
live peers (10)
Peer lists can be used to sync a node as an alternative to addressbook files. Here is a list of 10 active peers as observed by TTT's state-sync server in real-time. Add them to your config.toml if you have trouble finding peers.