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Title: Connecting BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core
Post by: BGK045 on November 21, 2022, 02:50:08 PM
Hi - I'm in the process of setting up my Bitcoin Core node and would then like to connect my BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core. Where do I find the correct IP address and secure port? Thanks in advance for any help!

BGK


Title: Re: Connecting BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core
Post by: PawGo on November 21, 2022, 03:31:18 PM
Hi - I'm in the process of setting up my Bitcoin Core node and would then like to connect my BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core. Where do I find the correct IP address and secure port? Thanks in advance for any help!

I am not sure it will work directly. AFAIK BlueWallet is using Electrum servers, which means you must install one of them. Personally I recommend electrs (https://github.com/romanz/electrs)
Then of course you may use it with Blue Wallet.


Title: Re: Connecting BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core
Post by: dkbit98 on November 21, 2022, 10:10:56 PM
Hi - I'm in the process of setting up my Bitcoin Core node and would then like to connect my BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core. Where do I find the correct IP address and secure port? Thanks in advance for any help!
You can find useful instructions how to connect Blue Wallet to your node on website posted below.
If you run into some trouble yo can try contacting Blue wallet support, or try using some other mobile wallets that work with full nodes.
https://bitcoiner.guide/blue/


Title: Re: Connecting BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core
Post by: n0nce on November 23, 2022, 01:13:29 AM
Hi - I'm in the process of setting up my Bitcoin Core node and would then like to connect my BlueWallet to Bitcoin Core. Where do I find the correct IP address and secure port? Thanks in advance for any help!

BGK
You need to install Electrum server; my guide for doing that on openSUSE is here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366854.msg58233714#msg58233714). It also explains which Onion address (better than IP; built-in encryption, tunneling, static) and port to use.
You basically get it from /var/lib/tor/<hidden_service_name>/hostname; then you can use http://<whateveritspitout>.onion:50001 in your SPV wallet.

Do be aware that if you use push notifications in BlueWallet, your transaction info will still be sent to the devs' servers, who then push notifications about confirmations and such, to Google / Apple servers, which finally deliver the notification to your phone. Kind of defeats the purpose to use a private Electrum server.

Unless you host the push notification service yourself, too; it's called Ground Control (https://github.com/BlueWallet/GroundControl), but I haven't tried it as I don't use this wallet.