Topic: Inquiry, coin control (Read 131 times)

I don’t get how you plan to spend some sats without them moving from your address, if you receive some coins into your wallet that you don’t want them to get mixed with your other coins (probably you got address poisoned) then the simplest thing to do is to just freeze those particular UTXOs and they will never get mixed with your other UTXO or you move your own UTXOs out of the wallet with the bad UTXOs still freeze and then abandon the old wallet, other than that you can’t move out coins from a wallet without spending them.

People already helped you with their posts but there are some more guides that I believe can help you more, not only Coin Control feature but more.

TUTORIAL: How to use Electrum (for advanced users)
How to spend specific UTXOs in Electrum or How to do Coin Control in Electrum wallet
The challenges of optimizing Unspent Output selection
Three big advantageous points by using Coin Control feature
As a small user, the fourth point is most important, then the third point.

Basis of the story, I am trying to move some rare sats without them being spent

With freezing any UTXO, you tell electrum that you don't want to spend that UTXO for your transaction.
If you have frozen some coins and you click on "Max" when making a transaction, you will send the coins that have not been frozen. If you want to make a transaction sending all your fund, go to "Coins" tab and unfreeze all frozen coins.

If I wanted to move them all the unspent UXTO's to another address can I do so while frozen?

In addition to all other responses I would recommend to connect Electrum to testnet    (read also this)and try all coin control features by yourself using test coins before experimenting with real coins on mainnet.

The best educational material is that one which was submitted to you by your experience.

It's very easy to use coin control feature on electrum.

Go to "Coins" tab to see all your UTXOs.
If "Coins" tab is not available, click on "View" at top of the window and check "Coins".

If you don't want a specific UTXO to be used for your transactions, right click on it and select "Freeze coin". Select "Freeze address" to freeze the UTXO and all other UTXOs received on the same address at once.
Whenever you want to make a transaction, the coins that have been frozen can't be spent.
 
If you want to use specific UTXOs for your transaction, right click on the UTXO and select "Add to coin Control". Once you do so, a message will be displayed at bottom of the window. The message tells you number of UTXOs you have selected. If you go to send tab and make a transaction, only coins that have been added to coin control can be used.

You can click on "reset" button at bottom of the window to remove all coins from coin control at once.
Take note that even if you click on "Reset" button, the frozen coins will be still frozen.

You can select any of UTXOs you want, right click and select "Fully Spend" and then "Send to address in clipboard" to make a transaction using selected UTXOs and the ones you have already added to coin control. Take note that if you make a transaction in this way, your transaction will include only 1 output and there won't be any change.
Obviously, "Send to address in clipboard" button doesn't work if you don't have any bitcoin address in your clipboard.


Don't forget to check inputs of your transaction before broadcasting it to make sure you have selected the correct UTXO(s).

Expanding Charles-Tim answer

You can check the full guide here by electrum documentation
https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-spend-specific-utxos-in-electrum/

On Electrum GUI, click on view -> check ✔️ coins. On the GUI, coins will appear. Click on coins to see your UTXOs. Right click on any UTXO and this will appear:



You can use it to freeze any UTXO or UTXOs.

To spend, paste the recipient address on the send tab -> click on coins -> right click on each an UTXO and that image to appear -> click on add to coin control and it would be marked in green. Use this to select all the UTXOs that you want to spend. Right click on any highlighted UTXO which will indicate all UTXOs that you want to spend -> click on fully spend -> send to address in clipboard.

Are there any education material for using coin control on electrum
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