Re: [Tails-dev] Fw: Electrum doc wrt. SPV security

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list, minoru
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Fw: Electrum doc wrt. SPV security
Minoru:
> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:19:43 +0000
> From: Minoru <minoru@???>
> To: intrigeri <intrigeri@???>
> Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Electrum doc wrt. SPV security
>
> 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]."


Great, thanks a lot for your patches. I added them the our Git branch,
see https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/6739-install-electrum.

I still want to rephase them a bit but I'll do that later.

> 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.”


To make sure I understand the consequences of this correctly, if I
change my receiving address is there no way of linking it to the
previous one? For example, do my bitcoins have some kind of "serial
number" for example? In that case, can the bitcoins I received on
address A, be identified as the bitcoins I sent later on through address B?

> If you ever need someone to write more bitcoin related documentation, I
> would be happy to contribute my knowledge and time.


Well noted, thanks!