I've never understood the point of generating a new address for each tx.
It's like replacing your mailbox everytime you receive a letter.
It's like replacing your mailbox everytime you receive a letter.
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Topic: Electrum, the gap limit and GUI differences (Read 1084 times)
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I've never understood the point of generating a new address for each tx.
It's like replacing your mailbox everytime you receive a letter.
It's like replacing your mailbox everytime you receive a letter.
Go back to the Classic GUI, go to settings > view > active Expert Mode
Now you'll see your addresses and your change addresses listed in the receiving tab.
Now you'll see your addresses and your change addresses listed in the receiving tab.
repost from the newbie section because I didn't get an answer there
Hi everybody,
I'm using Electrum 1.7.3 with the gap limit left at the default value of 5. When I look at the receiving tab in the classic GUI it shows me 5 unused addresses, so far so good.
However if I switch to lite mode it lists 9 addresses and those in reversed order (#9 being at the top).
1.) Why the difference?
2.) If I understand it correctly (correct me if I'm wrong) the purpose of having to supply the correct gap limit upon restoring from a seed is that Electrum can basically walk through unused addresses up to the limit to see what has been going on. If I were to use the 9th address from lite mode, but none of the other unused addresses (effectively leaving a gap of 8) and then do a recovery from seed with the gap correctly stated as 5, wouldn't that screw up the recovery?
Hi everybody,
I'm using Electrum 1.7.3 with the gap limit left at the default value of 5. When I look at the receiving tab in the classic GUI it shows me 5 unused addresses, so far so good.
However if I switch to lite mode it lists 9 addresses and those in reversed order (#9 being at the top).
1.) Why the difference?
2.) If I understand it correctly (correct me if I'm wrong) the purpose of having to supply the correct gap limit upon restoring from a seed is that Electrum can basically walk through unused addresses up to the limit to see what has been going on. If I were to use the 9th address from lite mode, but none of the other unused addresses (effectively leaving a gap of 8) and then do a recovery from seed with the gap correctly stated as 5, wouldn't that screw up the recovery?
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