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Show First 20 Lines • Show All 191 Lines • ▼ Show 20 Lines | your address. To mitigate this, additionally bind the address of your Tor proxy: | ||||
./bitcoind ... -bind=127.0.0.1 | ./bitcoind ... -bind=127.0.0.1 | ||||
If you don't care too much about hiding your node, and want to be reachable on IPv4 | If you don't care too much about hiding your node, and want to be reachable on IPv4 | ||||
as well, use `discover` instead: | as well, use `discover` instead: | ||||
./bitcoind ... -discover | ./bitcoind ... -discover | ||||
and open port 8333 on your firewall (or use `-upnp`). | and open port 8333 on your firewall (or use port mapping, i.e., `-upnp` or `-natpmp`). | ||||
If you only want to use Tor to reach .onion addresses, but not use it as a proxy | If you only want to use Tor to reach .onion addresses, but not use it as a proxy | ||||
for normal IPv4/IPv6 communication, use: | for normal IPv4/IPv6 communication, use: | ||||
./bitcoind -onion=127.0.0.1:9050 -externalip=7zvj7a2imdgkdbg4f2dryd5rgtrn7upivr5eeij4cicjh65pooxeshid.onion -discover | ./bitcoind -onion=127.0.0.1:9050 -externalip=7zvj7a2imdgkdbg4f2dryd5rgtrn7upivr5eeij4cicjh65pooxeshid.onion -discover | ||||
## 4. Privacy recommendations | ## 4. Privacy recommendations | ||||
- Do not add anything but Bitcoin ABC ports to the onion service created in section 3. | - Do not add anything but Bitcoin ABC ports to the onion service created in section 3. | ||||
If you run a web service too, create a new onion service for that. | If you run a web service too, create a new onion service for that. | ||||
Otherwise it is trivial to link them, which may reduce privacy. Onion | Otherwise it is trivial to link them, which may reduce privacy. Onion | ||||
services created automatically (as in section 2) always have only one port | services created automatically (as in section 2) always have only one port | ||||
open. | open. |