[Scoundreller]

> if my copy of Electrum was backdoored

While it’s not foolproof, it’s a good reason to compile things yourself from source instead of using the binaries. Unless someone trusted is validating build reproducibility, but that isn’t as common as we’d all like.

Some 4y old discussion of how some OSs for electrum are built reproducibly: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/dcz0my/what_is_not...

[FabHK]

This is clearly the right solution for the poor unbanked peasants crypto proponents are so concerned about. /s