<p>You could mine over TOR, but I would expect you would get much higher stales &amp; downtime due to the high latencies of the TOR network.</p>

<p>You can use the application ProxyChains to force any application on your computer to use a proxy (or a combination of proxies), simply add a new proxy to ProxyChains, 127.0.0.1 as IP and your TOR software's port as port, and then setup Proxychains to force your mining application to use that proxy.</p>

<p><a href="http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/</a></p>

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Blazr
<p><a href="http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Can_I_mine_over_Tor.3F" rel="nofollow">Eligius has a hidden service for Tor mining.</a></p>

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Well, they used to.
Travis Webb
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Luke Dashjr
<p>I've written an application to accomplish this on my own time. 
Hoping this helps you and anyone else who comes across this answer.</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/Elycin/PoolOverSocks5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Elycin/PoolOverSocks5</a></p>

<p>The test results that I've used over tor and the stratum protocol, I seem to have an average latency of 610ms to a Monero Pool such as <code>pool.usxmrpool.com</code>. This may vary for other cryptocurrencies, but using Tor there is no stales in 4 hours of testing.</p>

<p>Here's a image of it all working in my test environment:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/F39Kn.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/F39Kn.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Cheers.</p>

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Elycin
<p>Is it possible to mine Bitcoins at a pool through the TOR network? If so, how would one configure the appropriate tools?</p>

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Why would you want to do something like this?
Shamoon
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@Shamoon mostly something that came up during a conversation I had with my academic supervisor - he likes pointing out all possible exploits that could happen in relation to Bitcoin and one of them was attacking miners based on their IPs. So I figured out I'd investigate possible obfuscation of the addresses.
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Pool mining through the TOR network?
ThePiachu
# Pool mining through the TOR network?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-05-09)

Is it possible to mine Bitcoins at a pool through the TOR network? If so, how would one configure the appropriate tools?

**Tags:** mining-pools, tor

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Why would you want to do something like this?  
> **username_0**: @username_1 mostly something that came up during a conversation I had with my academic supervisor - he likes pointing out all possible exploits that could happen in relation to Bitcoin and one of them was attacking miners based on their IPs. So I figured out I'd investigate possible obfuscation of the addresses.  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2012-05-10. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

You could mine over TOR, but I would expect you would get much higher stales & downtime due to the high latencies of the TOR network.

You can use the application ProxyChains to force any application on your computer to use a proxy (or a combination of proxies), simply add a new proxy to ProxyChains, 127.0.0.1 as IP and your TOR software's port as port, and then setup Proxychains to force your mining application to use that proxy.

<http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/>


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### Answer by username_3 on 2012-05-14. Score: 4

[Eligius has a hidden service for Tor mining.](http://eligius.st/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Can_I_mine_over_Tor.3F)

> **Comments:**
> **username_4**: Well, they used to.  

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### Answer by username_5 on 2017-12-20. Score: 1

I've written an application to accomplish this on my own time.
Hoping this helps you and anyone else who comes across this answer.

<https://github.com/username_5/PoolOverSocks5>

The test results that I've used over tor and the stratum protocol, I seem to have an average latency of 610ms to a Monero Pool such as `pool.usxmrpool.com`. This may vary for other cryptocurrencies, but using Tor there is no stales in 4 hours of testing.

Here's a image of it all working in my test environment:
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/F39Kn.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/F39Kn.png)

Cheers.


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