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81 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 14h \ on: Benefit of Connecting Sparrow to My Own Bitcoin Knots Node bitcoin_beginners
The basic principle is: If you connect to my electrum server then I can log your IP and traffic. If you use your own then I cannot.
For example, some of the deanonymization orgs are known to run large amounts of public services to try and correlate your IP to your transaction.
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159 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 14h
not only the IP but also all the addresses derived from his xpub
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 12h
I used to believe clients like Electrum and Sparrow leaked the xpub / zpub, but then I found out they derive the addresses locally and query the Electrum server for those individual addresses.
The Electrum server can still infer the addresses belong to the same owner as they come from the same IP and are queried in succession.
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