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.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?
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.