There is effort ongoing to upgrade the Bitcoin P2P protocol to support other
address types, including onion v3. There are various posts on this ML under the
title “addrv2”. Further review and contributions to that effort is, as always,
welcome.
> On Nov 17, 2019, at 00:05, Mr. Lee Chiffre via
Blockchain Commons is using v3 tor authentication for remote clients
controlling a full node created using our Bitcoin Standup project
(currently only macOS but more platforms coming):
https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Bitcoin-Standup
Docs at:
For those perhaps not so well versed in the operation of Bitcoin (and Bitcoin
Core) with Tor, connectivity through the outgoing connection to other nodes is
all accomplished via the socks5 proxy which enables all current gossip and the
distribution of the nodes own transactions to other nodes.
Mr. Lee Chiffre via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Right now bitcoin client core supports use of tor hidden service. It
> supports v2 hidden service. I am in progress of creating a new bitcoin
> node which will use v3 hidden service instead of v2. I am looking at
> bitcoin core and btcd to use. Do any of
