You are complicating things so much.
The receiving address is owned by you. You use it for receiving bitcoin and give it to anyone who wants to send you bitcoin.
No, I am not complicating things at all; but please simply read my post in the context of the original post and following welcoming reply by Lafu. The issue raised was how to activate the greyed-out "Sending address" tab within the label tool. The receiving address is owned by you. You use it for receiving bitcoin and give it to anyone who wants to send you bitcoin.
My comment you refered to was just a confirmation of my understanding of Lafu's solution.
Below is the button khaled0111 was talking about.
https://i.imgur.com/T0nQ2mw.jpg
Tap on that button. After that, select "Safety" and then "Back up wallet".
In this way, you can get a file which can be used for recovering the wallet in future.
I don't know whether this file is compatible with any other wallet or not.
Please understand that the marked bottons are not shown in the downloaded wallet, as mentioned earlier - which is the crux of the issue raised.https://i.imgur.com/T0nQ2mw.jpg
Tap on that button. After that, select "Safety" and then "Back up wallet".
In this way, you can get a file which can be used for recovering the wallet in future.
I don't know whether this file is compatible with any other wallet or not.
I believe OP is talking about this wallet: Bitcoin Wallet
And it seems that this notification message he got when clicking on "Sent payments" is what confused him:
Please note that the issue was not about 'sending payments', but the greyed-out "Sending addresses" tab within the 'label' button/tool. This part of the issue has now been solved and I understand that "Sending addresses" are the recipients' receiving addresses.
And it seems that this notification message he got when clicking on "Sent payments" is what confused him:
OP, clicking on the Sent payments button is supposed to display a list of your recent sent transactions and the message you got makes perfect sense since your wallet is new and you didn't make any transaction yet.
It reminds you to back up your wallet so you don't lose your coins.
To back up your wallet: - click on the menu button (three vertical dots on the upper right corner) -> choose Safety -> Back up wallet -> set av password -> then choose where to save the wallet file on your device.
To send a payment, click on the Send Coins button on the bottom right then you can enter the address you want to send to and the amount you want to send.
It reminds you to back up your wallet so you don't lose your coins.
To back up your wallet: - click on the menu button (three vertical dots on the upper right corner) -> choose Safety -> Back up wallet -> set av password -> then choose where to save the wallet file on your device.
To send a payment, click on the Send Coins button on the bottom right then you can enter the address you want to send to and the amount you want to send.
Please note that the issue was not about 'sending payments', but the greyed-out "Sending addresses" tab within the 'label' button/tool. This part of the issue has now been solved and I understand that "Sending addresses" are the recipients' receiving addresses.
What do you mean by the sending address? If you created the bitcoin wallet then it must be having bitcoin address(es), you can be able to send bitcoin only if you have Bitcoin in your wallet and the receiver will get the address of your and the address of your wallet remain same and you can have as many address you want. So actually they are not separate thing, its just depends either you receive or send Bitcoin from that address.
I meant in relation to and the context of the greyed-out "Sending addresses" tab within the 'label' button of my downloaded Bitcoin Wallet. However, I now understand that sending addresses are the recipients' receiving addresses and that aspect of the issue has been solved.
So, the question is this: how do I get a sending address and private key before backing up the wallet and receiving Bitcoins?
Best to use a seed phrase wallet, seed phrase consists of 12 to 24 words that the wallet can generate for you for backup. The seed phrase can generate the private keys to the wallet and can be imported on another wallet for keys and coin recovery.Which wallet? Because some wallets are not recommendable while some do not have the standard (recommended) derivation paths.
The downloaded mobile wallet is Bitcoin Wallet 7.69, like the one below link points to, but without the 3-dot settings button.
https://bitcoin.org/en/wallets/mobile/android/bitcoinwallet/
I expected the wallet to generate the seed phrase automatically, as you described; but that is not the case here. Any more ideas?
The current issues are listed below.
- Bitcoin Wallet 7.69 seems to be the highest version compatible with my Android device.
- Why the settings button (3 dots) is absent in the wallet and whether there is a way to recover it.
- How to get the wallet behave as expected and generate seed phrase, etc.
Your continued support is well appreciated.
