Using BDK with Tor

[rorp]

Added Tor tutorial

See bitcoindevkit/bdk#66

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[notmandatory]

Thanks for this, a few suggestions:

1. In the first section after explaining how to install tor you should probably also add that it needs to be started in another shell with:

    % tor

   And then need to wait for the boot strapping to finish.
2. Some of your code examples need the code indents fixed.
3. You need to sign your commit.
4. You may want to remove the compact block filters example since it takes so long to sync, or at least start with something quicker like electrum, and then show it with cbf.
5. Since this is a tutorial you should probably move it to the tutorial part of the website

[notmandatory]

I've confirmed the CBF, electrum and both esplora sync parts work. But I did have to run the electrum and one of the esplora examples twice after seeing timeouts, most likely tor network related. So probably should mention that if the reader sees a timeout they should try rerunning it.

I was unable to get the libtor example to build, I'm on an M1 mac and that crate may need to be updated to work with an aarch64 system.

[rorp]

I was unable to get the libtor example to build, I'm on an M1 mac and that crate may need to be updated to work with an aarch64 system.

libtor builds Tor from the sources, it's 100% compatible with aarch64 systems. Most likely you don't have autotools and/or libtool installed. I need to update the article with the build instructions.

[notmandatory]

I was unable to get the libtor example to build, I'm on an M1 mac and that crate may need to be updated to work with an aarch64 system.

libtor builds Tor from the sources, it's 100% compatible with aarch64 systems. Most likely you don't have autotools and/or libtool installed. I need to update the article with the build instructions.

I fixed my build problem, I had to set these env variables, now builds fine:

export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/include"

[notmandatory]

You'll also need to update the config.js file to add your tutorial to the sidebar list.

[notmandatory]

ACK 35a6e64

All example code works for me, thanks for the updates. We will need to hold off on merging until bitcoindevkit/bdk#816 goes in so the link to the example code is available.

[thunderbiscuit]

Is this ready to go in? @rorp @notmandatory let's get it in if we can and the content is still relevant.

[notmandatory]

@thunderbiscuit sorry for the slow response, yes let's merge this. It's great info and will be something we want to incorporate into a future user bdk user guide.