Quote from: floydFoxygold on September 18, 2021, 05:12:23 PM

Quote from: rebroad on September 13, 2021, 04:04:32 PM

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 Kodi nox 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.

I think these would be correct links for the two tools, correct me if I'm wrong:

Eschalot => https://www.freshports.org/security/eschalot/
mkp224o => https://github.com/cathugger/mkp224o