[Need Help] trying to add vanity .onion domain to my bitcoin core full node, but it generates a new one every time it runs

Hello

I've been running a full node for a while on my raspberry pi 4, and now I'd like to also run it as an onion service.

I thought that it would be cool to have a vanity v3 domain of some kind, so I've used mkp224o to generate one (bitcoinABC...DEF.onion, from now on I'll refer to this as <myonionaddr>.onion

Now, to use this onion address I've generated with Bitcoin Core, I've followed these two guides:

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Setting_up_a_Tor_hidden_service
• https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/tor.md
• (I went for the manual setup route since I've got my own .onion address i want to use)

My problem is that from what I can see Bitcoin Core not only picks up my .onion address, but ALSO generates another one, and I can't understand if it's using both, or just one of them (which one?), or neither of those.

$ bitcoin-cli -rpcuser=<user> -rpcpassword=<password> -netinfo Bitcoin Core client v24.0.1 - server 70016/Satoshi:24.0.1/ ipv4 ipv6 onion total block in 22 0 1 23 out 10 0 0 10 2 total 32 0 1 33 Local addresses <myonionaddr>.onion port 8333 score 4 <NOTmyonionaddr>.onion port 8333 score 4 

I'd like to ONLY have <myonionaddr>.onion as running onion service, and not two. Can you please help me fix this issue if it's possible? down below has more info.

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Related files and configs:

• Bitcoin Core debug.log: https://pastebin.com/Y00f8UmD
• journalctl -e | grep tor: https://pastebin.com/bYKT16kw
• /etc/tor/torrc:

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HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/bitcoin-onion-service/ HiddenServicePort 8333 127.0.0.1:8334 ControlPort 9051 

• Tor directory:

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/var/lib/tor └─bitcoin-onion-service/ ├─autorized_clients/ ├─hostname ├─hs_ed25519_public_key └─hs_ed25519_secret_key ├─cached-certs ├─cached-microdesc-consensus ├─cached-microdesc ├─cached-microdescs.new └─keys/. └─ (copied over the same keys as in ../bitcoin-onion-service) ├─lock └─state 

• (everything in bitcoin-onion-service/ and keys/ was generated with the above-mentioned software)
• related bitcoin.conf settings:

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onion=127.0.0.1:9050 listen=1 externalip=<myonionaddr>.onion discover=1 debug=tor 

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• keep in mind I'm on a raspberry pi 4, every package is up to date (Bitcoin Core 24.0.1, tor 0.4.5.16)

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Thank you for your time, if you need anything please ask and I'll add to this post.

Edit: typos