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The following directions assume you have a Tor proxy running on port 9050. Many distributions default to having a SOCKS proxy listening on port 9050, but others may not. In particular, the Tor Browser Bundle defaults to listening on port 9150. See [Tor Project FAQ:TBBSocksPort](https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBSocksPort) for how to properly
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configure Tor.
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## How to see information about your Tor configuration via Bitcoin Core
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There are several ways to see your local onion address in Bitcoin Core:
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- in the debug log (grep for "tor:" or "AddLocal")
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- in the output of RPC `getnetworkinfo` in the "localaddresses" section
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- in the output of the CLI `-netinfo` peer connections dashboard
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You may set the `-debug=tor` config logging option to have additional
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information in the debug log about your Tor configuration.
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## 1. Run Bitcoin Core behind a Tor proxy
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