Connect to a full node (core/mynode/umbrel)

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Hi Folks,

I was not successful in connecting Bisq to the below nodes - at a varying level of ‘not success’:

  1. Bitcoin Core
  • peerbloomfilters=1 set
  • node run locally
  • Bisq does connect to the node but says it did not sync, although under Settings → Network it shows the latest block next to the node address
  1. mynodebtc
  • peerbloomfilters=1 set
  • node run remotely and accessed thru Tor
  • Bisq tries to connect but drops the node (Settings->Network intermittently shows the tor address of the node)
  1. umbrel
  • tried to use the Connect Wallet option and selected Bitcoin Core P2P and pasted the tor address of the node to Bisq but does not connect at all
  • spoke w/ the Umbrel team and they say they do not support Bisq atm, so probably that is why
  • Bisq tries to connect but drops the node (Settings->Network intermittently shows the tor address of the node)

Was anyone successful in connecting any of the above? thx!

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FIXED:

Ok, looks like Bisq does not support Tor v3, so we just need to wait for them to catch up OR set up a dedicated v2 service. See here: https://twitter.com/openoms/status/1356180485337182210

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According to Connecting to your own Bitcoin node - Bisq Wiki your bitcoin core full node configuration not only requires the peerbloomfilters=1 settings, but also it has to run in a NOT pruned mode.

If you want to connect to a your full node from a different computer running in the same local network, you may consider using a SSH tunnel to connect to it:

ssh -f -N -L 8333:localhost:8333 username@192.168.0.21

replacing username with the username on the local full node and 192.168.0.21 with the actual ip address of your full node.

Bisq will then happily swallow the decoy that there is a locally running full node on the same machine where in fact the communication will be forwarded to your full node in the background.

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