diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 39d2b429..262f1c5f 100755
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ daemon-true.txt
 .vscode/tags
 .vscode/settings.json
 
-venv/*
+venv*
 src/fs*
 src/tmp/*
 testdata/*
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index caa6ab2c..c4603a86 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [8.0.1] - 2020-12-22
+
+* Fix subprocess in 3.9x with dumb hack
+* Dependency bumps
 
 ## [8.0.0] - 2020-12-04
 
diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13f37262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/faq.md
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<h1 align="center">Onionr FAQ</h1>
+
+(Most of the FAQ answers apply to planned features and do not reflect in the demo network)
+
+* How does Onionr route messages?
+
+Onionr creates a message with an anti-spam proof (usually). It is then forwarded between nodes using binomial tree broadcast.
+
+The network is structured based on the particular transport being used, for Tor, .onion addresses are used to determine closeness between nodes.
+
+Churn due to connectivity changes or issues, membership changes or malicious activity means nodes need to sometimes look far away for missed messages.
+
+To help with scale, messages can be intelligently deleted or forwarded, for example a mail message can be marked by its recipient at a given point for deletion, or forum posts can be set to expire after a short period or after lack of activity.
+
+
+* Why do you use Python instead of [language]?
+
+I'm very comfortable in Python, and I believe it is a maintainable language if you use it correctly with modern features, also it has many quality libraries useful to the project, like pyncal and stem. Most places in the project are IO bound.
+
+
+* What do you think of bad actors who might use Onionr?
+
+Users should be able to exclude viewing, processing, and hosting content they do not want to. To this end, I want to enable user-configurable filtering based on lists provided by friends, fuzzy hashing, and voting.
+
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index c23dec08..4da3250f 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 urllib3==1.25.11
-requests==2.25.0
+requests==2.25.1
 PyNaCl==1.4.0
 gevent==20.9.0
 Flask==1.1.2
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ unpaddedbase32==0.2.0
 streamedrequests==1.0.3
 toomanyobjs==1.1.0
 niceware==0.2.1
-psutil==5.7.3
+psutil==5.8.0
 filenuke==0.0.0
-watchdog==0.10.4
+watchdog==1.0.2
 ujson==4.0.1
+cffi==1.14.4
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ffedc92c..865d9951 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,36 +8,44 @@ certifi==2018.11.29 \
     --hash=sha256:47f9c83ef4c0c621eaef743f133f09fa8a74a9b75f037e8624f83bd1b6626cb7 \
     --hash=sha256:993f830721089fef441cdfeb4b2c8c9df86f0c63239f06bd025a76a7daddb033 \
     # via requests
-cffi==1.12.2 \
-    --hash=sha256:00b97afa72c233495560a0793cdc86c2571721b4271c0667addc83c417f3d90f \
-    --hash=sha256:0ba1b0c90f2124459f6966a10c03794082a2f3985cd699d7d63c4a8dae113e11 \
-    --hash=sha256:0bffb69da295a4fc3349f2ec7cbe16b8ba057b0a593a92cbe8396e535244ee9d \
-    --hash=sha256:21469a2b1082088d11ccd79dd84157ba42d940064abbfa59cf5f024c19cf4891 \
-    --hash=sha256:2e4812f7fa984bf1ab253a40f1f4391b604f7fc424a3e21f7de542a7f8f7aedf \
-    --hash=sha256:2eac2cdd07b9049dd4e68449b90d3ef1adc7c759463af5beb53a84f1db62e36c \
-    --hash=sha256:2f9089979d7456c74d21303c7851f158833d48fb265876923edcb2d0194104ed \
-    --hash=sha256:3dd13feff00bddb0bd2d650cdb7338f815c1789a91a6f68fdc00e5c5ed40329b \
-    --hash=sha256:4065c32b52f4b142f417af6f33a5024edc1336aa845b9d5a8d86071f6fcaac5a \
-    --hash=sha256:51a4ba1256e9003a3acf508e3b4f4661bebd015b8180cc31849da222426ef585 \
-    --hash=sha256:59888faac06403767c0cf8cfb3f4a777b2939b1fbd9f729299b5384f097f05ea \
-    --hash=sha256:59c87886640574d8b14910840327f5cd15954e26ed0bbd4e7cef95fa5aef218f \
-    --hash=sha256:610fc7d6db6c56a244c2701575f6851461753c60f73f2de89c79bbf1cc807f33 \
-    --hash=sha256:70aeadeecb281ea901bf4230c6222af0248c41044d6f57401a614ea59d96d145 \
-    --hash=sha256:71e1296d5e66c59cd2c0f2d72dc476d42afe02aeddc833d8e05630a0551dad7a \
-    --hash=sha256:8fc7a49b440ea752cfdf1d51a586fd08d395ff7a5d555dc69e84b1939f7ddee3 \
-    --hash=sha256:9b5c2afd2d6e3771d516045a6cfa11a8da9a60e3d128746a7fe9ab36dfe7221f \
-    --hash=sha256:9c759051ebcb244d9d55ee791259ddd158188d15adee3c152502d3b69005e6bd \
-    --hash=sha256:b4d1011fec5ec12aa7cc10c05a2f2f12dfa0adfe958e56ae38dc140614035804 \
-    --hash=sha256:b4f1d6332339ecc61275bebd1f7b674098a66fea11a00c84d1c58851e618dc0d \
-    --hash=sha256:c030cda3dc8e62b814831faa4eb93dd9a46498af8cd1d5c178c2de856972fd92 \
-    --hash=sha256:c2e1f2012e56d61390c0e668c20c4fb0ae667c44d6f6a2eeea5d7148dcd3df9f \
-    --hash=sha256:c37c77d6562074452120fc6c02ad86ec928f5710fbc435a181d69334b4de1d84 \
-    --hash=sha256:c8149780c60f8fd02752d0429246088c6c04e234b895c4a42e1ea9b4de8d27fb \
-    --hash=sha256:cbeeef1dc3c4299bd746b774f019de9e4672f7cc666c777cd5b409f0b746dac7 \
-    --hash=sha256:e113878a446c6228669144ae8a56e268c91b7f1fafae927adc4879d9849e0ea7 \
-    --hash=sha256:e21162bf941b85c0cda08224dade5def9360f53b09f9f259adb85fc7dd0e7b35 \
-    --hash=sha256:fb6934ef4744becbda3143d30c6604718871495a5e36c408431bf33d9c146889 \
-    # via pynacl
+cffi==1.14.4 \
+    --hash=sha256:00a1ba5e2e95684448de9b89888ccd02c98d512064b4cb987d48f4b40aa0421e \
+    --hash=sha256:00e28066507bfc3fe865a31f325c8391a1ac2916219340f87dfad602c3e48e5d \
+    --hash=sha256:045d792900a75e8b1e1b0ab6787dd733a8190ffcf80e8c8ceb2fb10a29ff238a \
+    --hash=sha256:0638c3ae1a0edfb77c6765d487fee624d2b1ee1bdfeffc1f0b58c64d149e7eec \
+    --hash=sha256:105abaf8a6075dc96c1fe5ae7aae073f4696f2905fde6aeada4c9d2926752362 \
+    --hash=sha256:155136b51fd733fa94e1c2ea5211dcd4c8879869008fc811648f16541bf99668 \
+    --hash=sha256:1a465cbe98a7fd391d47dce4b8f7e5b921e6cd805ef421d04f5f66ba8f06086c \
+    --hash=sha256:1d2c4994f515e5b485fd6d3a73d05526aa0fcf248eb135996b088d25dfa1865b \
+    --hash=sha256:2c24d61263f511551f740d1a065eb0212db1dbbbbd241db758f5244281590c06 \
+    --hash=sha256:51a8b381b16ddd370178a65360ebe15fbc1c71cf6f584613a7ea08bfad946698 \
+    --hash=sha256:594234691ac0e9b770aee9fcdb8fa02c22e43e5c619456efd0d6c2bf276f3eb2 \
+    --hash=sha256:5cf4be6c304ad0b6602f5c4e90e2f59b47653ac1ed9c662ed379fe48a8f26b0c \
+    --hash=sha256:64081b3f8f6f3c3de6191ec89d7dc6c86a8a43911f7ecb422c60e90c70be41c7 \
+    --hash=sha256:6bc25fc545a6b3d57b5f8618e59fc13d3a3a68431e8ca5fd4c13241cd70d0009 \
+    --hash=sha256:798caa2a2384b1cbe8a2a139d80734c9db54f9cc155c99d7cc92441a23871c03 \
+    --hash=sha256:7c6b1dece89874d9541fc974917b631406233ea0440d0bdfbb8e03bf39a49b3b \
+    --hash=sha256:840793c68105fe031f34d6a086eaea153a0cd5c491cde82a74b420edd0a2b909 \
+    --hash=sha256:8d6603078baf4e11edc4168a514c5ce5b3ba6e3e9c374298cb88437957960a53 \
+    --hash=sha256:9cc46bc107224ff5b6d04369e7c595acb700c3613ad7bcf2e2012f62ece80c35 \
+    --hash=sha256:9f7a31251289b2ab6d4012f6e83e58bc3b96bd151f5b5262467f4bb6b34a7c26 \
+    --hash=sha256:9ffb888f19d54a4d4dfd4b3f29bc2c16aa4972f1c2ab9c4ab09b8ab8685b9c2b \
+    --hash=sha256:a5ed8c05548b54b998b9498753fb9cadbfd92ee88e884641377d8a8b291bcc01 \
+    --hash=sha256:a7711edca4dcef1a75257b50a2fbfe92a65187c47dab5a0f1b9b332c5919a3fb \
+    --hash=sha256:af5c59122a011049aad5dd87424b8e65a80e4a6477419c0c1015f73fb5ea0293 \
+    --hash=sha256:b18e0a9ef57d2b41f5c68beefa32317d286c3d6ac0484efd10d6e07491bb95dd \
+    --hash=sha256:b4e248d1087abf9f4c10f3c398896c87ce82a9856494a7155823eb45a892395d \
+    --hash=sha256:ba4e9e0ae13fc41c6b23299545e5ef73055213e466bd107953e4a013a5ddd7e3 \
+    --hash=sha256:c6332685306b6417a91b1ff9fae889b3ba65c2292d64bd9245c093b1b284809d \
+    --hash=sha256:d5ff0621c88ce83a28a10d2ce719b2ee85635e85c515f12bac99a95306da4b2e \
+    --hash=sha256:d9efd8b7a3ef378dd61a1e77367f1924375befc2eba06168b6ebfa903a5e59ca \
+    --hash=sha256:df5169c4396adc04f9b0a05f13c074df878b6052430e03f50e68adf3a57aa28d \
+    --hash=sha256:ebb253464a5d0482b191274f1c8bf00e33f7e0b9c66405fbffc61ed2c839c775 \
+    --hash=sha256:ec80dc47f54e6e9a78181ce05feb71a0353854cc26999db963695f950b5fb375 \
+    --hash=sha256:f032b34669220030f905152045dfa27741ce1a6db3324a5bc0b96b6c7420c87b \
+    --hash=sha256:f60567825f791c6f8a592f3c6e3bd93dd2934e3f9dac189308426bd76b00ef3b \
+    --hash=sha256:f803eaa94c2fcda012c047e62bc7a51b0bdabda1cad7a92a522694ea2d76e49f \
+    # via -r requirements.in, pynacl
 chardet==3.0.4 \
     --hash=sha256:84ab92ed1c4d4f16916e05906b6b75a6c0fb5db821cc65e70cbd64a3e2a5eaae \
     --hash=sha256:fc323ffcaeaed0e0a02bf4d117757b98aed530d9ed4531e3e15460124c106691 \
@@ -141,21 +149,35 @@ niceware==0.2.1 \
     --hash=sha256:0f8b192f2a1e800e068474f6e208be9c7e2857664b33a96f4045340de4e5c69c \
     --hash=sha256:cf2dc0e1567d36d067c61b32fed0f1b9c4534ed511f9eeead4ba548d03b5c9eb \
     # via -r requirements.in
-pathtools==0.1.2 \
-    --hash=sha256:7c35c5421a39bb82e58018febd90e3b6e5db34c5443aaaf742b3f33d4655f1c0 \
-    # via watchdog
-psutil==5.7.3 \
-    --hash=sha256:01bc82813fbc3ea304914581954979e637bcc7084e59ac904d870d6eb8bb2bc7 \
-    --hash=sha256:1cd6a0c9fb35ece2ccf2d1dd733c1e165b342604c67454fd56a4c12e0a106787 \
-    --hash=sha256:2cb55ef9591b03ef0104bedf67cc4edb38a3edf015cf8cf24007b99cb8497542 \
-    --hash=sha256:56c85120fa173a5d2ad1d15a0c6e0ae62b388bfb956bb036ac231fbdaf9e4c22 \
-    --hash=sha256:5d9106ff5ec2712e2f659ebbd112967f44e7d33f40ba40530c485cc5904360b8 \
-    --hash=sha256:6a3e1fd2800ca45083d976b5478a2402dd62afdfb719b30ca46cd28bb25a2eb4 \
-    --hash=sha256:ade6af32eb80a536eff162d799e31b7ef92ddcda707c27bbd077238065018df4 \
-    --hash=sha256:af73f7bcebdc538eda9cc81d19db1db7bf26f103f91081d780bbacfcb620dee2 \
-    --hash=sha256:e02c31b2990dcd2431f4524b93491941df39f99619b0d312dfe1d4d530b08b4b \
-    --hash=sha256:fa38ac15dbf161ab1e941ff4ce39abd64b53fec5ddf60c23290daed2bc7d1157 \
-    --hash=sha256:fbcac492cb082fa38d88587d75feb90785d05d7e12d4565cbf1ecc727aff71b7 \
+psutil==5.8.0 \
+    --hash=sha256:0066a82f7b1b37d334e68697faba68e5ad5e858279fd6351c8ca6024e8d6ba64 \
+    --hash=sha256:02b8292609b1f7fcb34173b25e48d0da8667bc85f81d7476584d889c6e0f2131 \
+    --hash=sha256:0ae6f386d8d297177fd288be6e8d1afc05966878704dad9847719650e44fc49c \
+    --hash=sha256:0c9ccb99ab76025f2f0bbecf341d4656e9c1351db8cc8a03ccd62e318ab4b5c6 \
+    --hash=sha256:0dd4465a039d343925cdc29023bb6960ccf4e74a65ad53e768403746a9207023 \
+    --hash=sha256:12d844996d6c2b1d3881cfa6fa201fd635971869a9da945cf6756105af73d2df \
+    --hash=sha256:1bff0d07e76114ec24ee32e7f7f8d0c4b0514b3fae93e3d2aaafd65d22502394 \
+    --hash=sha256:245b5509968ac0bd179287d91210cd3f37add77dad385ef238b275bad35fa1c4 \
+    --hash=sha256:28ff7c95293ae74bf1ca1a79e8805fcde005c18a122ca983abf676ea3466362b \
+    --hash=sha256:36b3b6c9e2a34b7d7fbae330a85bf72c30b1c827a4366a07443fc4b6270449e2 \
+    --hash=sha256:52de075468cd394ac98c66f9ca33b2f54ae1d9bff1ef6b67a212ee8f639ec06d \
+    --hash=sha256:5da29e394bdedd9144c7331192e20c1f79283fb03b06e6abd3a8ae45ffecee65 \
+    --hash=sha256:61f05864b42fedc0771d6d8e49c35f07efd209ade09a5afe6a5059e7bb7bf83d \
+    --hash=sha256:6223d07a1ae93f86451d0198a0c361032c4c93ebd4bf6d25e2fb3edfad9571ef \
+    --hash=sha256:6323d5d845c2785efb20aded4726636546b26d3b577aded22492908f7c1bdda7 \
+    --hash=sha256:6ffe81843131ee0ffa02c317186ed1e759a145267d54fdef1bc4ea5f5931ab60 \
+    --hash=sha256:74f2d0be88db96ada78756cb3a3e1b107ce8ab79f65aa885f76d7664e56928f6 \
+    --hash=sha256:74fb2557d1430fff18ff0d72613c5ca30c45cdbfcddd6a5773e9fc1fe9364be8 \
+    --hash=sha256:90d4091c2d30ddd0a03e0b97e6a33a48628469b99585e2ad6bf21f17423b112b \
+    --hash=sha256:90f31c34d25b1b3ed6c40cdd34ff122b1887a825297c017e4cbd6796dd8b672d \
+    --hash=sha256:99de3e8739258b3c3e8669cb9757c9a861b2a25ad0955f8e53ac662d66de61ac \
+    --hash=sha256:c6a5fd10ce6b6344e616cf01cc5b849fa8103fbb5ba507b6b2dee4c11e84c935 \
+    --hash=sha256:ce8b867423291cb65cfc6d9c4955ee9bfc1e21fe03bb50e177f2b957f1c2469d \
+    --hash=sha256:d225cd8319aa1d3c85bf195c4e07d17d3cd68636b8fc97e6cf198f782f99af28 \
+    --hash=sha256:ea313bb02e5e25224e518e4352af4bf5e062755160f77e4b1767dd5ccb65f876 \
+    --hash=sha256:ea372bcc129394485824ae3e3ddabe67dc0b118d262c568b4d2602a7070afdb0 \
+    --hash=sha256:f4634b033faf0d968bb9220dd1c793b897ab7f1189956e1aa9eae752527127d3 \
+    --hash=sha256:fcc01e900c1d7bee2a37e5d6e4f9194760a93597c97fee89c4ae51701de03563 \
     # via -r requirements.in
 pycparser==2.19 \
     --hash=sha256:a988718abfad80b6b157acce7bf130a30876d27603738ac39f140993246b25b3 \
@@ -183,9 +205,9 @@ pysocks==1.7.1 \
     --hash=sha256:2725bd0a9925919b9b51739eea5f9e2bae91e83288108a9ad338b2e3a4435ee5 \
     --hash=sha256:3f8804571ebe159c380ac6de37643bb4685970655d3bba243530d6558b799aa0 \
     # via -r requirements.in
-requests==2.25.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:7f1a0b932f4a60a1a65caa4263921bb7d9ee911957e0ae4a23a6dd08185ad5f8 \
-    --hash=sha256:e786fa28d8c9154e6a4de5d46a1d921b8749f8b74e28bde23768e5e16eece998 \
+requests==2.25.1 \
+    --hash=sha256:27973dd4a904a4f13b263a19c866c13b92a39ed1c964655f025f3f8d3d75b804 \
+    --hash=sha256:c210084e36a42ae6b9219e00e48287def368a26d03a048ddad7bfee44f75871e \
     # via -r requirements.in, streamedrequests
 six==1.12.0 \
     --hash=sha256:3350809f0555b11f552448330d0b52d5f24c91a322ea4a15ef22629740f3761c \
@@ -232,8 +254,24 @@ urllib3==1.25.11 \
     --hash=sha256:8d7eaa5a82a1cac232164990f04874c594c9453ec55eef02eab885aa02fc17a2 \
     --hash=sha256:f5321fbe4bf3fefa0efd0bfe7fb14e90909eb62a48ccda331726b4319897dd5e \
     # via -r requirements.in, requests
-watchdog==0.10.4 \
-    --hash=sha256:e38bffc89b15bafe2a131f0e1c74924cf07dcec020c2e0a26cccd208831fcd43 \
+watchdog==1.0.2 \
+    --hash=sha256:016b01495b9c55b5d4126ed8ae75d93ea0d99377084107c33162df52887cee18 \
+    --hash=sha256:101532b8db506559e52a9b5d75a308729b3f68264d930670e6155c976d0e52a0 \
+    --hash=sha256:27d9b4666938d5d40afdcdf2c751781e9ce36320788b70208d0f87f7401caf93 \
+    --hash=sha256:2f1ade0d0802503fda4340374d333408831cff23da66d7e711e279ba50fe6c4a \
+    --hash=sha256:376cbc2a35c0392b0fe7ff16fbc1b303fd99d4dd9911ab5581ee9d69adc88982 \
+    --hash=sha256:57f05e55aa603c3b053eed7e679f0a83873c540255b88d58c6223c7493833bac \
+    --hash=sha256:5f1f3b65142175366ba94c64d8d4c8f4015825e0beaacee1c301823266b47b9b \
+    --hash=sha256:602dbd9498592eacc42e0632c19781c3df1728ef9cbab555fab6778effc29eeb \
+    --hash=sha256:68744de2003a5ea2dfbb104f9a74192cf381334a9e2c0ed2bbe1581828d50b61 \
+    --hash=sha256:85e6574395aa6c1e14e0f030d9d7f35c2340a6cf95d5671354ce876ac3ffdd4d \
+    --hash=sha256:b1d723852ce90a14abf0ec0ca9e80689d9509ee4c9ee27163118d87b564a12ac \
+    --hash=sha256:d948ad9ab9aba705f9836625b32e965b9ae607284811cd98334423f659ea537a \
+    --hash=sha256:e2a531e71be7b5cc3499ae2d1494d51b6a26684bcc7c3146f63c810c00e8a3cc \
+    --hash=sha256:e7c73edef48f4ceeebb987317a67e0080e5c9228601ff67b3c4062fa020403c7 \
+    --hash=sha256:ee21aeebe6b3e51e4ba64564c94cee8dbe7438b9cb60f0bb350c4fa70d1b52c2 \
+    --hash=sha256:f1d0e878fd69129d0d68b87cee5d9543f20d8018e82998efb79f7e412d42154a \
+    --hash=sha256:f84146f7864339c8addf2c2b9903271df21d18d2c721e9a77f779493234a82b5 \
     # via -r requirements.in
 werkzeug==0.15.5 \
     --hash=sha256:87ae4e5b5366da2347eb3116c0e6c681a0e939a33b2805e2c0cbd282664932c4 \
diff --git a/scripts/disable-dev-config.py b/scripts/disable-dev-config.py
index d2b847b8..ca337a12 100755
--- a/scripts/disable-dev-config.py
+++ b/scripts/disable-dev-config.py
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ conf['general']['display_header'] = True
 conf['general']['security_level'] = 0
 conf['general']['use_bootstrap_list'] = True
 conf['onboarding']['done'] = False
-conf['general']['minimum_block_pow'] = 6
-conf['general']['minimum_send_pow'] = 6
+conf['general']['minimum_block_pow'] = 5
+conf['general']['minimum_send_pow'] = 5
 conf['log']['file']['remove_on_exit'] = True
 conf['transports']['lan'] = True
 conf['transports']['tor'] = True
diff --git a/src/etc/onionrvalues.py b/src/etc/onionrvalues.py
index cafb8010..776068c2 100755
--- a/src/etc/onionrvalues.py
+++ b/src/etc/onionrvalues.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import filepaths
 DENIABLE_PEER_ADDRESS = "OVPCZLOXD6DC5JHX4EQ3PSOGAZ3T24F75HQLIUZSDSMYPEOXCPFA"
 PASSWORD_LENGTH = 25
 ONIONR_TAGLINE = 'Private P2P Communication - GPLv3 - https://Onionr.net'
-ONIONR_VERSION = '8.0.0'
+ONIONR_VERSION = '8.0.1'
 ONIONR_VERSION_CODENAME = 'Genesis'
 ONIONR_VERSION_TUPLE = tuple(ONIONR_VERSION.split('.')) # (MAJOR, MINOR, VERSION)
 API_VERSION = '2' # increments of 1; only change when something fundamental about how the API works changes. This way other nodes know how to communicate without learning too much information about you.
diff --git a/src/onionrproofs/subprocesspow.py b/src/onionrproofs/subprocesspow.py
index 2923de74..a988b366 100755
--- a/src/onionrproofs/subprocesspow.py
+++ b/src/onionrproofs/subprocesspow.py
@@ -91,10 +91,17 @@ class SubprocessPOW:
     def _spawn_proc(self):
         """Create a child proof of work process
         wait for data and send shutdown signal when its found"""
-        parent_conn, child_conn = Pipe()
-        p = Process(target=self.do_pow, args=(child_conn,), daemon=True)
-        p.start()
-        #p.join()
+        # The importerror started happening in 3.9.x
+        # not worth fixing because this POW will be replaced by VDF
+        try:
+            parent_conn, child_conn = Pipe()
+            p = Process(target=self.do_pow, args=(child_conn,), daemon=True)
+            p.start()
+        except ImportError:
+            logger.error(
+                "Error in subprocess module when getting new POW " +
+                "pipe.\nThis is related to a problem in 3.9.x", terminal=True)
+            return
         payload = None
         try:
             while True:
diff --git a/src/sneakernet/__init__.py b/src/sneakernet/__init__.py
index 9c78b568..6b4002a8 100644
--- a/src/sneakernet/__init__.py
+++ b/src/sneakernet/__init__.py
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@ def sneakernet_import_thread():
     for path in watch_paths:
         observer.schedule(_Importer(), path, recursive=True)
     observer.start()
-    while observer.isAlive():
+    while observer.is_alive():
         # call import func with timeout
-        observer.join(60)
\ No newline at end of file
+        observer.join(60)
diff --git a/src/vanityonionr/__init__.py b/src/vanityonionr/__init__.py
index 7be6abcd..49556619 100644
--- a/src/vanityonionr/__init__.py
+++ b/src/vanityonionr/__init__.py
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ from multiprocessing import Process, Pipe, Queue
 import re, time
 import threading
 
+import logger
+
 wordlist = niceware.WORD_LIST
 
 def find_vanity_mnemonic(start_words: str, queue):
@@ -47,10 +49,16 @@ def find_vanity_mnemonic(start_words: str, queue):
 
 def _start(start_words, obj):
     done = False
-    q = Queue()
-    p = Process(target=find_vanity_mnemonic, args=[start_words, q], daemon=True)
-    p.daemon = True
-    p.start()
+    try:
+        q = Queue()
+        p = Process(target=find_vanity_mnemonic, args=[start_words, q], daemon=True)
+        p.daemon = True
+        p.start()
+    except ImportError:
+        logger.error(
+            "Error in subprocess module when getting new POW " +
+            "pipe.\nThis is related to a problem in 3.9.x", terminal=True)
+        return
     rec = None
     while not done:
         try:
diff --git a/static-data/default_config.json b/static-data/default_config.json
index dcad2e50..fe047199 100755
--- a/static-data/default_config.json
+++ b/static-data/default_config.json
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@
         "tor": true
     },
     "ui": {
-        "animated_background": false,
+        "animated_background": true,
         "public_remote_enabled": false,
         "public_remote_hosts": [],
         "theme": "dark"
     }
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/runtime-result.txt b/tests/runtime-result.txt
index 3fe82038..ed6d5e78 100644
--- a/tests/runtime-result.txt
+++ b/tests/runtime-result.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1606975647
\ No newline at end of file
+1608601319
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_default_config_json.py b/tests/test_default_config_json.py
index 2678b13c..76ec3e65 100644
--- a/tests/test_default_config_json.py
+++ b/tests/test_default_config_json.py
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ class OnionrConfig(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['ephemeral_tunnels'], False)
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['hide_created_blocks'], True)
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['insert_deniable_blocks'], True)
-            self.assertEqual(conf['general']['minimum_block_pow'], 6)
-            self.assertEqual(conf['general']['minimum_send_pow'], 6)
+            self.assertEqual(conf['general']['minimum_block_pow'], 5)
+            self.assertEqual(conf['general']['minimum_send_pow'], 5)
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['public_key'], '')
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['random_bind_ip'], True)
             self.assertEqual(conf['general']['security_level'], 0)