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

From: "Slurms MacKenzie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:20:06 +0200

> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM
> From: "s7r via bitcoin-dev" <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making Electrum more anonymous
>
> Privacy concerned people should run their own Electrum server and make
> it accessible via .onion, and connect the bitcoind running on the
> electrum server host only to other onion peers (onlynet=tor). We should
> highlight that using Electrum with Tor cannot leak more that some
> addresses belong to the same wallet, which is not the end of the world.
> 

It leaks your timezone too. As pointed out in another thread running a electrum-server instance is no easy task and can't really be suggested to another as a sensible thing to run for themselves. Enthusiasts maybe, but they'll just want to run Bitcoin core and skip the behemoth middleman.