1 How to run Dash with the Tor Browser Bundle (easy setup, moderate privacy, hide your IP)

[elan]

Guide: How to run Dash with the Tor Browser Bundle?!?

Setup: Easy (TL;DR install Tor browser, reconfigure Dash)
Time: ~15 minutes
Privacy: Moderate (hides your IP)​

Step by step:

1. Get the latest version of the Tor Browser Bundle from the tor project website: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
   Make sure you get the latest version, chose any language you like but I recommend en-US. Some operating systems like linux may have the tor browser in their repositories, check them out, this simplyfies upgrades. But make sure they always offer the latest version.
2. Install the browser bundle, start it and hit connect. You will see a window popping up which shows the status of the Tor connection and it will open the browser as soon as it is connected.
3. Navigate to http://darkcoinie7ghp67.onion/ with the Tor browser. If you see the website of the Dash relay, your Tor was set up correctly! The Tor browser includes a SOCKS proxy listening on port :9150 which allows you to dip into the deep web. Now we are going to set up Dash.
4. Tell Dash to use the Tor proxy by either passing the -onion=127.0.0.1:9150 command line argument to the client or adding this line to your config file onion=127.0.0.1:9150.

A sample Dash config file for using the Tor browser bundle looks like that:

rpcuser=yourrpcuser
rpcpassword=rpcpassword!1337

onion=127.0.0.1:9150  # tell dash to use tor browser proxy
discover=0  # disable discovering of your local ip address
listen=0  # disable incoming connections to your ip

addnode=darkcoinie7ghp67.onion  # optional but recommended relay addnode

In a typical situation, this suffices to run behind the Tor browser proxy:

./dash-qt -onion=127.0.0.1:9150

Note: You need to start the Tor browser each time you want to run Dash through Tor. Else Dash will fail to connect.

Note: If you prefer a native Tor over the Tor browser bundle, you might want to use port :9050.

Here are some screenshots of what to expect:

Read more:

• 2 How to run Dash with Tor nodes connected only (moderate setup, high privacy, hide in the deep)
• 3 How to run a local Dash Tor hidden service (advanced setup, high privacy, own onion address)
  
• Full Dash Tor documentation: http://darkcoinie7ghp67.onion/tor.txt
• Clearnet mirror on official github: https://github.com/darkcoin/darkcoin/blob/master/doc/tor.md

 

[tungfa]

Tx for the Dash updates !

 

[shane1901]

Hi does this still work with the current Dash Core as the onion links are not working in Tor browser.

 

[Pasta]

Hey All!

In case anyone looks at this forum post, this guide is almost correct, however you MUST use `--proxy=127.0.0.1:9150` instead of `--onion=127.0.0.1:9150` if you want your traffic to go over tor!

 

[xkcd]

Hey Everyone, someone wrote a much better guide over at https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/how-to-tor.50363/#post-222351 why not check it out?