Hi,

I recommend the following change in the file ~/.electrum/config

{
    "coin_chooser": "Privacy",
    "proxy": "socks5:localhost:9050"
}

"Attempts to better preserve user privacy. First, if any coin is spent from a user address, all coins are. Compared to spending from other addresses to make up an amount, this reduces information leakage about sender holdings. It also helps to reduce blockchain UTXO (unspent transaction outputs) bloat, and reduce future privacy loss that would come from reusing that address' remaining UTXOs. Second, it penalizes change that is quite different to the sent amount. Third, it penalizes change that is too big."

Routing transaction relay through Tor is only part of the solution. The blockchain is a public ledger that can be analyzed anytime after the initial transaction broadcast. Private coin selection impedes correlation of transaction inputs and outputs that could link back to an identity. Tails should set the coin selection to privacy in Electrum by default to protect Tails users.

Please Cc me with any replies. I am not subscribed to the list.

Cheers,
Michael English

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