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Installation of OBFS4

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Heidi Kaulitz edited this page Jun 16, 2018 · 1 revision

Disclaimer: The author of this article is living in Europe, I can not guarantee that this will work for you or that it will protect you in all cases! This tutorial is purely informational, to make it easier for you to get through the process.

Installation of OBFS4

Windows

  1. Download and install Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org/download/download
  2. Look for a file called obfs4proxy.exe, which is located in the subfolder Tor/PluggableTransports of the Tor Browser installation directory.
  3. Copy this file into the Spectrecoin installation directory (to the same place where the "spectre.exe" or "spectre" executable is).

Linux

Mac OS

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Preparation

  1. Download the SpectreCoin wallet: https://github.com/spectrecoin/Spectrecoin/releases

  2. Start the SpectreCoin wallet once, to initialize the data directory.

  3. Go to the data directory. (See https://github.com/bitcoinx2/spectre/wiki/Overview#data-directory).

  4. Go to the subfolder "tor" and create a new text file called "torrc" (right click -> new text file).

Configure OBFS4

Go to https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges to get a bridge. Alternatively, you can try to get a private bridge from a friend of yours.

If you use the above link, solve the captcha, and on the next page, copy the lines given. Prefix each of them with Bridge, and paste them into the "torrc" file created in the preparation step, so that it looks like this:

Bridge <IP>:<Port> <fingerprint>
Bridge <IP>:<Port> <fingerprint>
Bridge <IP>:<Port> <fingerprint>

Save the file. Make sure that the file name is simply "torrc", not "torrc.txt".

Start SpectreCoin

If you start the SpectreCoin wallet now and configured everything correctly, it should start connecting to the network after a while. If you get the error message Timed out waiting for onion hostname., just restart the wallet until it works.

If it still doesn't work, try adding some more bridges, because the ones you configured before might be offline.

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