I am discovering that firo, does not work correctly with TOR correctly, even with the latest update which updated the tor version, it still doesn’t work. (Tor upgraded to v0.4.8.9 by levonpetrosyan93 · Pull Request #1544 · firoorg/firo · GitHub)
Did anyone manage to get a .onion address with their firod/firo-qt? I tested on different computers and at the same time tried out litecoin, bitcoin, pivx…they all get a .onion address. There is some issue in the way firo talks to the tor service (via the authentication cookie).
getnetworkinfo
{
“version”: 141401,
“subversion”: “/Satoshi:0.14.14.1/”,
“protocolversion”: 90031,
“localservices”: “000000000000000d”,
“localrelay”: true,
“timeoffset”: -5,
“networkactive”: true,
“connections”: 8,
“networks”: [
{
“name”: “ipv4”,
“limited”: false,
“reachable”: true,
“proxy”: “127.0.0.1:9050”,
“proxy_randomize_credentials”: true
},
{
“name”: “ipv6”,
“limited”: false,
“reachable”: true,
“proxy”: “127.0.0.1:9050”,
“proxy_randomize_credentials”: true
},
{
“name”: “onion”,
“limited”: false,
“reachable”: true,
“proxy”: “127.0.0.1:9050”,
“proxy_randomize_credentials”: true
}
],
“relayfee”: 0.00001000,
“incrementalfee”: 0.00001000,
“localaddresses”: [ < —— ONION ADDRESS SHOULD APPEAR HERE, BUT IT DOESN'T
],
“warnings”: “”
}
This is the /etc/tor/torrc config that works for all other coin daemons (bitcoin, litecoin, pivx…etc)
SOCKSPort 9050
Log notice stdout
ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1
CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1
I tried all kinds of combinations of .firo/firo.conf, commenting out each setting, restarting, but it never works:
torsetup=1
debug=tor
onlynet=onion
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
Firo debug log:
2025-09-04 08:48:28 torcontrol thread start
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: Successfully connected!
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: Connected to Tor version 0.4.8.16
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: Supported authentication method: COOKIE
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: Supported authentication method: SAFECOOKIE
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: Using SAFECOOKIE authentication, reading cookie authentication from /run/tor/control.authcookie
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: SAFECOOKIE authentication challenge successful
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: AUTHCHALLENGE ServerHash xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ServerNonce xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: Authentication successful
2025-09-04 08:48:28 tor: Add onion failed; error code 513
Just to clarify, the connection goes through the tor proxy 127.0.0.1:9050, the issue I am describing is the lack of a onionV3 address being generated/assigned.
Can anyone confirm this is working for them?
