Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous

From: Mike Hearn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:18:51 +0200

>
> One solution would be for the client to combine all the addresses they are
> interested in into a single bloom filter and send that to the server.
>

<snip extra ideas>

Hey Joseph,

All those ideas are ones we had years ago and they are implemented in the
current Bitcoin protocol.

The trick, as you may know, is this bit:

The client would also need to be fairly clever

It turns out making a sufficiently clever client to fool even advanced
observers is a lot of programming work, assuming you wish for the Ultimate
Solution which lets you allocate a desired quantity of bandwidth and then
use it to maximize privacy.