Connect your wallet to your node

Connect your wallet to your Bitcoin node via the Electrum server.

Choose a connection method

Open Electrs, you'll notice 2 methods of connecting: Local Network and Tor.

Local Network

If you connect via local network, your wallet won’t be able to reach your node when you leave home. In addition SSL is disabled by default which means your data transits in clear on your local network.

We can solve this by enabling SSL and setting up port forwarding which I'll cover in the future.

Unless you do the above by yourself, I would recommend to avoid connecting this way. Your ISP and unexpected network guests could spy on you.

Tor

Tor is excellent for security and privacy. Additionally, by having our Electrum server behind an onion hidden service, we benefit from:

• End-to-end encryption

• Client and server anonymization

Connect your wallet to your node

Make sure your wallet supports connecting to Electrum servers. Most wallets do.

The setup is simple: just add your Electrum server's address and port to your wallet's node settings.

If you're connecting through Tor, you'll likely need to configure your wallet to use Tor's proxy (127.0.0.1:9050) and ensure Tor is running (unless your wallet comes bundled with it).

I will make a more detailed sections about connecting and configuring wallets in the future.