diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2ab3397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "onionr/bitpeer"]
+	path = onionr/bitpeer
+	url = https://github.com/beardog108/bitpeer.py
diff --git a/onionr/bitpeer b/onionr/bitpeer
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..d179f625
--- /dev/null
+++ b/onionr/bitpeer
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d179f625b3a1bf1b6fc544e65a81c103ab01ec7c
diff --git a/onionr/btc.py b/onionr/btc.py
index 03c449b6..47ad0acb 100644
--- a/onionr/btc.py
+++ b/onionr/btc.py
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
 from bitpeer.node import *
 from bitpeer.storage.shelve import ShelveStorage
 import logging, time
+import socks, sys
 class OnionrBTC:
-	def __init__(self, lastBlock='00000000000000000021ee6242d08e3797764c9258e54e686bc2afff51baf599', lastHeight=510613):
+	def __init__(self, lastBlock='00000000000000000021ee6242d08e3797764c9258e54e686bc2afff51baf599', lastHeight=510613, torP=9050):
 		stream = logging.StreamHandler()
 		logger = logging.getLogger('halfnode')
 		logger.addHandler(stream)
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ class OnionrBTC:
 
 		LASTBLOCK = lastBlock
 		LASTBLOCKINDEX = lastHeight
-		self.node = Node ('BTC', ShelveStorage ('./btc-blocks.db'), lastblockhash=LASTBLOCK, lastblockheight=LASTBLOCKINDEX)
+		self.node = Node ('BTC', ShelveStorage ('data/btc-blocks.db'), lastblockhash=LASTBLOCK, lastblockheight=LASTBLOCKINDEX, torPort=torP)
 
 		self.node.bootstrap ()
 		self.node.connect ()