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Can someone please let me know how to set up my PC to run Bitcoin Core in Tor ? I am running windows, downloaded full node. All runs well. I wanted to go step further and hide my IP.

I input those commands into the bitcoin.conf :

onion=127.0.0.1:9150
#proxy=127.0.0.1:9150
bind=127.0.0.1:8333

then I am getting this in my log file :

2026-09-28T00:37:56Z Imported mempool transactions from file: 2824 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 expired, 0 already there, 0 waiting for initial broadcast

2026-09-28T00:37:56Z initload thread exit

2026-09-28T00:37:56Z New block-relay-only peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=0

2026-09-28T00:37:57Z New block-relay-only peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=1

2026-09-28T00:37:57Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v1, version: 70016, blocks=968907 peer=2

2026-09-28T00:38:04Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=974447 peer=3

2026-09-28T00:38:04Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=4

2026-09-28T00:38:06Z P2P peers available. Skipped DNS seeding.

2026-09-28T00:38:06Z dnsseed thread exit

2026-09-28T00:38:11Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=6

2026-09-28T00:38:12Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=7

2026-09-28T00:38:13Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=9

2026-09-28T00:38:36Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=10

2026-09-28T00:38:37Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v2, version: 70016, blocks=968908 peer=11

2026-09-28T00:39:03Z New outbound-full-relay peer connected: transport: v1, version: 70016, blocks=968906 peer=12

And when I getnetworkinfo on my console : this is what I get

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{

"version": 310000,

"subversion": "/Satoshi:31.0.0/",

"protocolversion": 70016,

"localservices": "0000000000000c09",

"localservicesnames": [

"NETWORK",

"WITNESS",

"NETWORK_LIMITED",

"P2P_V2"

],

"localrelay": true,

"timeoffset": 0,

"networkactive": true,

"connections": 8,

"connections_in": 0,

"connections_out": 8,

"networks": [

{

"name": "ipv4",

"limited": false,

"reachable": true,

"proxy": "",

"proxy_randomize_credentials": false

},

{

"name": "ipv6",

"limited": false,

"reachable": true,

"proxy": "",

"proxy_randomize_credentials": false

},

{

"name": "onion",

"limited": false,

"reachable": true,

"proxy": "127.0.0.1:9150",

"proxy_randomize_credentials": true

},

{

"name": "i2p",

"limited": true,

"reachable": false,

"proxy": "",

"proxy_randomize_credentials": false

},

{

"name": "cjdns",

"limited": true,

"reachable": false,

"proxy": "",

"proxy_randomize_credentials": false

}

],

"relayfee": 0.00000100,

"incrementalfee": 0.00000100,

"localaddresses": [

],

"warnings": [

]

}

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