Send via TOR using the CLI Wallet
To follow this tutorial, you will need the following:
- Up-to-date mwc-wallet Software: https://github.com/mwcproject/mwc-wallet/releases
- Up-to-date mwc-node Software: https://github.com/mwcproject/mwc-node/releases
- An active Internet Connection
- Up-to-date TOR Installation
To use TOR with the CLI Wallet we need to install TOR first.
The Installation depends on your OS, you can use the following command on linux:
sudo apt install tor
Or the following on macos:
brew install tor
On Windows you will need to Download and execute the Setup of TOR.
Important: This should make Tor available to the CLI-Wallet via the %path% Variable, on Windows you might need to manually set it tho, see How to do that here!
First let's lay out the overall procedure, more detailed instructions with screenshots are below:
- Start your Node and wait for it to Sync
- Open a Commandline or Shell and navigate to your Wallet's Folder
- Send the Transaction to a .onion address by typing the send Command
- Confirm typing your password
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Start your Node and make sure it is fully synchronised before continuing!
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Open a Commandline or shell in your Walletfolder and then execute the following command:
mwc-wallet send -d %Recipient-URL% %Amount%
<enter password>Where you will need to Replace %Recipient-URL% %Amount% with the Recipients TOR Address and the Amount to send respectively.
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Once the transaction is confirmed and sent, the recipient needs to wait enough confirmations (set to 10 blocks by default) to spend the fund received recently.
The recipient can check the status by executing
mwc-wallet info