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Never use Electrum unless you're hosting your own backend. There is no telling how many public Electrum servers are run by chain analysis companies and other adversaries that are in the business of attributing IP addresses to UTXOs.

Electrum was a great piece of software 10 years ago, but the surveillance landscape has changed a lot since then and it is not really safe to use it in its default state.

TLDR: run your own Electrum backend or don't use Electrum.

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𝕞𝕪𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕥𝕠𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖 1y ago 💬 3

Any way around this? Tor?

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Alfred Hodler 1y ago

Tor doesn't help because Electrum bulk requests all your addresses from the remote server. At best Tor will keep your IP private but all your addresses are correlated as belonging to the same entity the moment you connect.

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𝕞𝕪𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕥𝕠𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖 1y ago

Damn, so we need to get a node up and running to avoid this?

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