Has anyone found a way to create a vanity onion address for use with a bitcoin node?
I've found plenty of generic onion vanity generators, but somehow the files created aren't useable by bitcoind. It's probably a minor tweak needed, but I've not managed to work out how to do it yet. Has anyone?
you can find a solution on opensource.com ,,, here is an extract :To configure a vanity onion address, you need to generate a new private key to match a custom hostname.
Two applications that you can use for generating .onion addresses are eschalot for v2 addresses and mkp224o for v3 addresses.
Eschalot is a Tor hidden service name generator. It allows you to produce a (partially) customized vanity .onion address using a brute-force method. Eschalot is distributed in source form under the BSD license and should compile on any Unix or Linux system.
mkp224o is a vanity address generator for ed25519 .onion services that's available on GitHub with the CC0 1.0 Universal license. It generates vanity 56-character onion addresses.