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From: "Slurms MacKenzie" <slurms@gmx.us>
To: s7r@sky-ip.org
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:20:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-37f4d177-8dea-4035-aaf0-d2f6d0070837-1437772806124@3capp-mailcom-bs07> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B21DA7.2020706@sky-ip.org>

> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM
> From: "s7r via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
> To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous
>
> Privacy concerned people should run their own Electrum server and make
> it accessible via .onion, and connect the bitcoind running on the
> electrum server host only to other onion peers (onlynet=tor). We should
> highlight that using Electrum with Tor cannot leak more that some
> addresses belong to the same wallet, which is not the end of the world.
> 

It leaks your timezone too. As pointed out in another thread running a electrum-server instance is no easy task and can't really be suggested to another as a sensible thing to run for themselves. Enthusiasts maybe, but they'll just want to run Bitcoin core and skip the behemoth middleman. 


      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-24 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22 15:51 [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-22 16:04 ` Natanael
2015-07-22 16:30 ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-22 22:20   ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-22 23:07     ` Joseph Gleason ⑈
2015-07-22 16:41 ` Joseph Gleason ⑈
2015-07-22 21:18   ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-22 23:11 ` gb
2015-07-23  0:07   ` Eric Voskuil
     [not found]   ` <114b2a76-ebc7-461a-b4bc-10873574d6c4@HUB2.rwth-ad.de>
2015-07-23 12:23     ` Stefan Richter
2015-07-24  2:26       ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-24  3:42         ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24  4:44           ` Eric Voskuil
2015-07-24  9:38             ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24 11:12 ` s7r
2015-07-24 21:20   ` Slurms MacKenzie [this message]

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