September 12, 2026

Installed bitcoin-qt and Tor, allowed firewall, Tor connects, but Bitcoin doesn’t

I did these things but Bitcoin still says 0 connections. What’s the problem?

  1. Windows 7 32bit. Installed bitcoin-qt

  2. Installed Tor Browser bundle

  3. I allowed all local outbound connections in my firwall (remote connections allowed only for Tor, for bitcion they’re forbidden).

  4. Run bitcoin.exe and enabled SOCKS proxy 127.0.0.1 on port 9050.

  5. Exit bitcoin.exe, run Tor Vidalia, wait till it say “Connected to Tor”

  6. Run bitcoin-qt.exe

  7. Wait, wait, wait… 0 connections. In Resource Monitor I see only Tor connects to the internet. Bitcoin doesn’t connect anywhere.

Please help.

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