I’ve been running a Bitcoin full node on an Ubuntu server for years. Bitcoind connects via Tor to hide my Bitcoin usage from my ISP. In mid-December, I suddenly stopped getting peers, and I stopped downloading new blocks.
This is how my bitcoin.conf used to look like:
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
listen=1
bind=127.0.0.1
As soon as I commented out the above lines, I found peers again and new blocks were successfully downloaded (but I’m no longer behind Tor).
Tor seems to be running fine on my server. I can still connect to a hidden service set up on the same machine, and the output of curl --socks5 localhost:9050 --socks5-hostname localhost:9050 -s https://check.torproject.org/ | cat | grep -m 1 Congratulations | xargs is ‘Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor.’
I would like to resume using my node behind Tor. Any help is appreciated.
btw: I’m using Bitcoin Core 0.21.1.
