Questions about how-to bridge between Tor and Bitcoin

[MysteryMiner]

I want to act as a kind of bridge between Tor network and IPv4 Bitcoin network. If I understand correctly it can improve network performance of Tor-only connected nodes. I read some wikis and what I got is that I need to make my bitcoin.conf look something like this:

Code:

proxy=127.0.0.1:9150
externalip=silkroadvb5p1z3r.onion
discover=1

P.S. The admins setting rules of forum are becoming total conformist shithead. Why linking to now defunct Silkroad address is banned? I included it in my sample as a example.

And why it is forbidden to write some combination of letters and numbers in first place? There was active Silk Road thread back in 2011. Continuing this course the Bitcoin itself would get banned form this forum by year 2016

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[dserrano5]

I read some wikis

Try the authoritative documentation on tor support.

Code:

proxy=127.0.0.1:9150
externalip=silkroadvb5p1z3r.onion
discover=1

My understanding of the docs is that you need listen=1 as well.

[michagogo]

My personal setup, for a node that runs on both IPv4 internet and Tor, is as follows:

Code:

externalip=myaddresshere.onion #tells the client to advertise my hidden service address in addr messages
discover=1 #tells the client to find out what its IP address is, despite externalip
listen=1 #tells the client to listen for incoming connections
tor=127.0.0.1:9050 #tells the client to use localhost:9050 as a proxy to connect to hidden service addresses

For more, take a look at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.8.5/doc/Tor.txt -- that lists the options as they exist in release 0.8.5. The link dserrano5 is mostly correct, but it's correct as of current git head.