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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:19:43 +0000
From: Minoru <minoru@???>
To: intrigeri <intrigeri@???>
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Electrum doc wrt. SPV security
Intrigeri,
Here is what I would write in the Electrum documentation:
"Do not blindly trust the bitcoin balance that Electrum displays.
Electrum connects to remote servers that can withhold transactions from
the client. Read more about the vulnerabilities of SPV in the Bitcoin
Developer Guide
[
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#simplified-payment-verification-spv]."
In addition, I saw that the Electrum documentation stated that bitcoin
is not anonymous. This statement is absolutely true, but I would remind
the user of a method to increase privacy. After “bitcoin is not
anonymous,” I would write:
“To increase privacy, remember to use a separate receiving address for
each transaction.”
If you ever need someone to write more bitcoin related documentation, I
would be happy to contribute my knowledge and time.
Cheers,
Minoru
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:14:18 +0100
intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
> Hi Minoru,
>
> Minoru wrote (15 Feb 2015 14:11:10 GMT) :
> > I want to contribute to the Tails documentation and I was redirected
> > to you.
>
> Thanks, this is useful information.
>
> How do you suggest we convey the message to the user, without going
> too deep into technical details? (Still, it would be useful to have
> a URL to point them to for more info if they wish to.)
>
> For contributing to the documentation, surely our frontdesk has
> already pointed you to the relevant page, but just in case they
> forgot, here it is:
> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/documentation/
>
> Cheers,
