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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Decline in listening hosts
by
kangasbros
on 30/05/2012, 12:19:40 UTC
I'm sorry, but how do you run a BTC client behind Tor? My Tor installation comes with a bundled browser, and from what I gather the only communications being scrambled are the ones the Tor browser makes... Am I wrong?

How would one (easily  Tongue) make MultiBit "speak" through Tor?

On ubuntu listen it is as simple as installing tor, making sure it is started, and the adding proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 to your bitcoin.conf
 OR starting bitcoind with flag -proxy=127.0.0.1:9050

Don't know about windows/Mac, but it shouldn't be too hard... Tor is for encrypting/anonymizin all internet traffic, not just for web sites.

Ultra-cool-tip of the day: you can create a server, which is _only_ set up as a tor hidden service. This means that you can only ssh to it through tor, etc etc.