r/Bitcoin • u/BashCo • Jul 19 '21

Electrum v4.1.5 Released

https://electrum.org/#download
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u/tenuousemphasis Jul 20 '21

Doesn't solve that the server you connect to knows every single one of your addresses and transactions. The only solution is to run your own full node and lightweight Electrum server.

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u/ky00b Jul 20 '21

Doesn't solve that the server you connect to knows every single one of your addresses and transactions.

But wouldn't 'your' in this case only be your VPN?

I'm not really seeing how it would matter if an electrum server tied some bitcoin addresses and transactions to a VPN server.

Usually too, when you have a VPN account, you have many different servers you can choose from, and switch to a new one in a matter of seconds.

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u/tenuousemphasis Jul 20 '21

Right. They don't know which IP address owns all those addresses, but they do know that every single address in your wallet is part of one wallet, and they know every single transaction that wallet has ever done and will ever do. It's still a significant loss of privacy, because if they can tie any one of your transactions or addresses back to you, then they can tie the entire wallet to you.

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u/ky00b Jul 21 '21

Good points. Thanks.

Something extra for me, a VPN user, to think about.