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Title: is it worth using bitcoin client in tails? Post by: Catabit on March 15, 2015, 12:28:26 AM I was wondering if its worth installing and using the bitcoin core client in a tails environment to prevent any security issues etc.
Title: Re: is it worth using bitcoin client in tails? Post by: shorena on March 15, 2015, 12:30:05 AM I was wondering if its worth installing and using the bitcoin core client in a tails environment to prevent any security issues etc. Tails 1.3. comes with electrum, no need to install bitcoin core which would take a few days to sync every time anyway. Title: Re: is it worth using bitcoin client in tails? Post by: lyth0s on March 15, 2015, 12:51:21 AM I was wondering if its worth installing and using the bitcoin core client in a tails environment to prevent any security issues etc. The tails distro is setup to not remember anything once it is disconnected from the host computer. So each time you would have to redownload the entire bitcoin blockchain all over again which is very inefficient. You could however setup a permanent encrypted drive within tails to store the blockchain. The question then just becomes can you be 100% sure that you can force the core client to ONLY use the tor connection without going around it? If you have the programming know-how to do so then yes you could potentially do that. I recommend just using the electrum that they have embedded in tails so you know that it wont bypass the TOR connection and reveal yourself. |