TLDR: Can someone lead me through the process of running a Bitcoin Full Node on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit), which does not display my IP adress openly (so probably via TOR) and explain me the whole thing about portforwarding and how to minimize risk with it?
I would like to run a Bitcoin Full Node on my Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit). The Pi is booted from an external 2TB SSD which, before imaging the OS, I formated to ext4 and on which I would run the whole node. The Pi is only intended for running a full node. Even though the Pi is only connected to my guest wifi, I would like to not display the IP adress openly, so I would like to run it via Tor.
I’m trying to follow several different tutorials througout the last days, but somehow I do not get it set up properly, especially because all tutorials I found so far connecting the concept of full node & tor are for older version of bitcoin core or older Pi’s and somehow sth is always not working the way it seems in the tutorial or it seems as if some step is missing or the tutorial is just the closest I get to my setup but always different enough that at some point the path they take and the path I have to take seperate.
So is there maybe someone that can kind of lead me through the process maybe?
It’s kind of weird that I can’t find anything about this so far, because I can’t imagine it being that complicated – in essence, I guess, it should be sth along the way of
- install tor
- install bitcoin core
- change torrc
- change bitcoin.conf
- run bitcoin core, download blockchain and then just let it run
but I kind of just can’t get it set up. So can someone maybe help me with this?
additional: I can’t grasp the whole thing about the portforwarding. Is this necessary for supporting the network and if so, isn’t this a security risk for my network/device? How can I minimize/eradicate this risk or is using tor already a good security measure for this?
Maybe necessary info: my wifi is secured with at least WPA2 (maybe WPA3, I’m not quite sure right now) and a pretty complex passphrase.
