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I'm running a bitcoin node behind a v2 onion address. I'd like to migrate its traffic to a different, v3 address.

Is there a way that my peers can be notified of such a change so they learn that myv2addess.onion and myv3address.onion are actually the same machine? Or do I have to just bring the myv3address.onion online and wait for traffic to come?

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I realize that the question was asked about a year ago, but I will respond hoping that it would be useful for someone given the ongoing v2 onion services deprecation.

Assuming you already created a version 3 address i.e in torrc add these lines:

HiddenServiceDir /full/path/to/your/new/v3/directory/

HiddenServicePort <virtual port> <target-address>:<target-port>

You might want to keep running your version 2 service until it is deprecated to provide a transition path to your users. Add this line to the configuration block of your version 2 service:

HiddenServiceVersion 2

Now you can advertise your new v3 onion address with Onion-Location or maybe add a small note on your v2 onion service.

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