How To Download & Install Tor For Bitcoin Core

This in video on how to be a sovereign Bitcoiner, I go through the process how to install Tor on your computer and make it run as a hidden service by Bitcoin Core.

Running Bitcoin Core through clearnet is a recipe for disaster. By using Tor, you can remain anonymous on the Bitcoin network when you broadcast your transactions.

Instructions:

dpkg --print-architecture
sudo apt install apt-transport-https
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo nano tor.list

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org (DISTRIBUTION) main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org (DISTRIBUTION) main

(note: I changed the brackets around DISTRIBUTION as I wasn't allowed to enter the other style of brackets in this description)

lsb_release -c

(Note: the description won't allow me to enter the wget command for this step. The text can be found in step 3 at https://support.torproject.org/apt/. You will need to include sudo twice - once before 'wget' and once before 'tee')

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

restart Bitcoin Core

tor –version
cd /etc/tor
sudo nano torr c

ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1
CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1

ps -eo user,group,comm |egrep 'bitcoind|bitcoin-qt' |awk '{print "Bitcoin user: " $1}'

sudo usermod -a -G debian-tor (user name found from above command)

proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
listen=1
bind=127.0.0.1
onlynet=onion
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