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.

On the RaspiBlitz terminal:

• Open the Tor configuration file:
  $ sudo nano /mnt/hdd/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

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:

http://docs.electrum.org/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