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Board Electrum
Re: Using electrum.blockstream.info server?
by
Lucius
on 21/06/2020, 13:07:55 UTC
Well yes. I'm (gratefully) no user of Twitter, but if T.V. lets that “Retweet” sit for several days on his account page, doesn't that imply that he approves of it?

Also: there's always a certain level of trust required for people to function at all. I have to trust my VPN when they tell me they don't keep any logs. Apparently this Blockstream company also states that they do no such thing. If T.V. is trusting them, shouldn't I also trust them? Until evidence of the contrary...

We can interpret this retweet as we wish, but it is an indisputable fact that it was created on the official Electrum Twitter and that in a way it represents the official opinion of one or more people behind that profile. If I disapprove of something, then I will certainly not share it with hundreds or thousands of my followers.

If you want to raise your privacy level consider the option to use your own server, or to always use TOR/VPN so that no one can analyze you. As mentioned several times, no one controls the servers used by Electrum - so any 3 letter agency can have them, same as a bunch of bad people looking for a new way to scam Electrum users.

The fact is that today everyone is spying on everyone, and those who say they don't do it are especially suspicious.