Using electrum in a pc

I do not use tails and I use electrum in my pc. I tumble here and there but mostly I send from electrum to dnm. Done it many times without a problem. What's the difference between having electrum in Windows than having it in tails? Should I really invest time in learning how to use tails to be safer? Thanks all.


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[7 Points] Silky_R:

Tails makes the transaction anonymous.

The process you currently use to get your coins to the DNM is very easy to track and if LE ever decides to track BTC transactions you pretty much have screwed youself since I can track everything you did and correlate and IP address to it.

What does tails do?

Tails allows you to completely remove the trace from you. It spoofs your mac adress, it spoofs your IP, and allows you to make an electrum wallet anonymously so you can then send it to a DNM.

So it's this process you just did:

Coinbase(linked to your identity) > Electrum wallet on home IP (linked to you) > DNM wallet (anonymous)

Here is what you want:

Coinbase(linked to your identity) > Electrum wallet on Tails (random IP, random mac addess) > DNM wallet (anonymous)

See why it's bad?


[3 Points] sapiophile:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3353ae/opseccomputer_folks_gotta_stop_saying_use/


[0 Points] PrinceKael:

You should be okay. There is no clear cut answer, Tails obviously is the way more secure option, but depends on what your situation is.

I'm not going to tell everyone to start using Tails/Whonix, with a VeraCrypt container containing PGP software and an encrypted boot partition etc. Although if you're someone who might be a big target, that's the route you'll wanna go with.

If you don't use Tails, just keep your addresses separate, so whichever site you use, after transferring BTC, generate a new address on that site to keep things separate.

If you want a little more protection, use Tails, if that's a bit of a hassle, download something like VeraCrypt and make an encrypted container or USB which requires a unique, random, strong password to access and keep your Electrum wallet and other private files in there.