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Re: How to verify that Core is using Tor?
by
ranochigo
on 31/08/2021, 02:51:16 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
You're not using Tor. Bitcoin Core cannot connect to the Tor instance, are you running Tor at all?

You have to use -onlynet=onion and -bind=127.0.0.1 to force Bitcoin Core to only connect to onion nodes and for incoming connections to go through Tor. If done correctly, bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo should return reachable for onion and have a network score.

Not sure how it works for inbound. probably best practice to disable all of it with nolisten as listen=1 may allow nodes to connect over clearnet in certain instances?
When a proxy is enabled, Core automatically sets listen=0 unless specified otherwise.