Can someone please let me know how to set up my PC to run Bitcoin Core in Tor ? I am running windows, downloaded full node. All runs well. I wanted to go step further and hide my IP.
I input those commands into the bitcoin.conf :
onion=127.0.0.1:9150
#proxy=127.0.0.1:9150
bind=127.0.0.1:8333
then I am getting this in my log file :
2026-09-28T00:37:56Z Imported mempool transactions from file: 2824 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 expired, 0 already there, 0 waiting for initial broadcast
2026-09-28T00:37:56Z initload thread exit
2026-09-28T00:37:56Z New block-relay-only peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=0
2026-09-28T00:37:57Z New block-relay-only peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=1
2026-09-28T00:37:57Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v1, version: 70016, blocks=968907 peer=2
2026-09-28T00:38:04Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=974447 peer=3
2026-09-28T00:38:04Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=4
2026-09-28T00:38:06Z P2P peers available. Skipped DNS seeding.
2026-09-28T00:38:06Z dnsseed thread exit
2026-09-28T00:38:11Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=6
2026-09-28T00:38:12Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=7
2026-09-28T00:38:13Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=9
2026-09-28T00:38:36Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=10
2026-09-28T00:38:37Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=11
2026-09-28T00:39:03Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v1, version: 70016, blocks=968906 peer=12
And when I getnetworkinfo on my console : this is what I get
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{
"version": 310000,
"subversion": "/Satoshi:31.0.0/",
"protocolversion": 70016,
"localservices": "0000000000000c09",
"localservicesnames": [
"NETWORK",
"WITNESS",
"NETWORK_LIMITED",
"P2P_V2"
],
"localrelay": true,
"timeoffset": 0,
"networkactive": true,
"connections": 8,
"connections_in": 0,
"connections_out": 8,
"networks": [
{
"name": "ipv4",
"limited": false,
"reachable": true,
"proxy": "",
"proxy_randomize_credentials": false
},
{
"name": "ipv6",
"limited": false,
"reachable": true,
"proxy": "",
"proxy_randomize_credentials": false
},
{
"name": "onion",
"limited": false,
"reachable": true,
"proxy": "127.0.0.1:9150",
"proxy_randomize_credentials": true
},
{
"name": "i2p",
"limited": true,
"reachable": false,
"proxy": "",
"proxy_randomize_credentials": false
},
{
"name": "cjdns",
"limited": true,
"reachable": false,
"proxy": "",
"proxy_randomize_credentials": false
}
],
"relayfee": 0.00000100,
"incrementalfee": 0.00000100,
"localaddresses": [
],
"warnings": [
]
}
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