bitcoin-tutorials/electrs/Tor_Hidden_Service_for_Electrs.md

Configure a Tor Hidden Service for Electrs

Tor needs to be active on the RaspiBlitz to use this method.
No port forwarding or dynamicDNS required.

Activate the Hidden Service in the RaspiBlitz terminal

• Open the Tor configuration file:
  $ sudo nano /etc/tor/torrc

• Insert the lines:

  # Hidden Service for Electrum Server
  HiddenServiceDir /mnt/hdd/tor/electrs
  HiddenServiceVersion 3
  HiddenServicePort 50001 127.0.0.1:50001
  

• Restart Tor:
  $ sudo systemctl restart tor
$ sudo systemctl restart tor@default

• Take note of the Tor address:
  $ sudo cat /mnt/hdd/tor/electrs/hostname

Connect the Electrum wallet

On a Linux PC

• Start electrum with the Tor Browser open (proxy on port 9150):
  $ electrum --oneserver --server Tor_address.onion:50001:t --proxy socks5:127.0.0.1:9150

• With Tor installed and running (proxy on port 9050):
  $ electrum --oneserver --server Tor_address.onion:50001:t --proxy socks5:127.0.0.1:9050

Windows instructions:

https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tor.html#windows

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Check for the blue dot when finished:

Based on:

https://github.com/romanz/electrs/blob/master/doc/usage.md#tor-hidden-service