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Tor hidden service

Install Tor on your server and client machines (assuming Ubuntu/Debian):

$ sudo apt install tor

Add the following config to /etc/tor/torrc:

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServiceVersion 3
HiddenServicePort 50001 127.0.0.1:50001

Restart the service:

$ sudo systemctl restart tor

Note: your server's onion address is stored under:

$ sudo cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname
<your-onion-address>.onion

On your client machine, run the following command (assuming Tor proxy service runs on port 9050):

$ electrum --oneserver --server <your-onion-address>.onion:50001:t --proxy socks5:127.0.0.1:9050

For more details, see http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/tor.html.