Topic: Old Address's (Read 2502 times)

It will be yours all the time coinbase are generating new addresses everytime we accepting payment from anyone who sending us payments, and we do not know which one we are going to be use cause we can't see the address we use and blockchain for is best every time we generated a new address it will remain our old address tit will be accessable whenever you want.

Thats great advice for future, use actual wallet not exchanges to your payments/business.

I still think that no HD functionality of old Blockchain.info wallet was less confusing for users. I see this question about old addresses asked almost everyday.
Newbies are confused that old addresses are being deleted - info about this functionality should be presented directly in Address menu of blockchain, not in FAQ.

Side note to be aware of for both security and personal use.  I needed an old password from a site that I had not been to in a long time.  This is going to sound strange, but I had the password saved in the browser and could not remember the actual URL.  Rather than pick through the history I parsed the password saves into a CSV and that was easier to read.  In that file I had pulled what Firefox thought were "usernames" for several sites, without the passwords.  Many of those were old Bitcoin addresses from sites like blockchain.info.  I did the same for Chrome.  I have been using Chrome since well before 2009 and I let my Chrome and Firefox profiles follow me machine to machine.  I had what must have been thirty addresses starting with 1.  When I got bored at night I dropped them into Electrum via script and all were empty save for one, it only had 0.05 BTC in it and I had to use blockchain.info to actually get the coins because I used them for the original wallet and they do not hand out the priv keys, so Electrum could not fully import. 

The point is not that I found six bucks, but that those addresses were right there in the password file, without passwords, but if you know someone well enough to get in their computer you can probably guess a password.  Now they use a second form of security, like confirmation email, but again, you are in their computer, a modern system like Windows 10 probably showed an alert about the incoming email, if not, I am sure that is a secondary issue getting into the emails.  So, those saved autofills, with or without a password and there.  If your browser keeps a profile for you, like mine, that same file will be downloaded to any computer it is installed on once you log in to the browser.  Just be careful, passwords are one of the weakest parts of security and can be guessed pretty easy.

what I know about wallets that bitcoin addresses are can't be deleted. specially in blockchain. anytime you create a new address the old address still will be there in your addresses list.
Coinbase is also same.. some wallets when you change the address(not delete, delete function is not available) the old address will be hide but that address still associated with you wallet and anytime someone send you balance to that address you'll receive them..
like xapo etc.

I dont know about others. but in Copay, you can still receive funds via old addresses since in copay, the address changes after every transaction.

That is the way that most online wallets and sites like exchanges operate, the wallet addresses are always linked to your account.  but, there are some sites that do not use that method.  i have never seen an online wallet do this, but i have seen it at other types of sites that take deposits.....that address is assigned to you for the deposit and at some point in he future goes back to the website.  in other words, say its a casino/gambling site, you click on deposit and the company itself temporarily hands out an address to your account for the deposit and then later removes that link between address and your account.  also, there are some sites that will not credit deposits that are made to your main wallet address.  these types of sites are not wallet sites and it is not a common thing, but they are basically recycling something like 1000 addresses of theirs and assigning the value to your account.  wallet sites are really sharing addresses generated off their own wallet too sometimes....

The advise has always been never delete an address, always keep hold of your private keys. 

I'll tell you what I know about that. I also have wallet and it's adress always changes in 2 weeks but I receive payment in my old adress, which was created 1 year ago. As I know online wallet's websites are changing our bitcoin adress for our security. Don't be afraid if your adress is changed, you will receive payment because all addresses that have been generated for your account will remain associated with your account forever.

you can have access to old address also , it will be on your account,
 and you can export them to new address , it is very user friendly on wallet.
once able to access your old address you can send or withdraw it.

As long as your old bitcoin address is listed on the coinbase addresses list then it is still accessible for use.

I doesn't matter how old is the address, maybe are worried because coinbase generated a new address without asking you

But don't worry they generate new address probably to have a better 'privacy' but since the old address can still be used it is good.

You can still receive money to them and the money appears in your account balance. It is possible to view the balance per each address, including old ones, in Advanced settings on blockchain wallet web GUI. For security purpose you could export the private key into an offline storage, though. After the export, the addresses still should be usable from your online wallet.

I'm worried that you might lose access to those addresses.
Since the site (Coinbase or blockchain) controls which keys you have access to, you should either export them or use an actual wallet.

On coinbase if you hover over your name then go to "advanced" you will see all your old wallet addresses and they will stay with your account it just generates a new wallet address after x transactions for extra security.

it will still be credited to your account in coinbase and on blockchain.info wallet it will still reflect in your wallet balance unless you deleted the private key of your old address and you don't have backup for it.

They will still be accessible to you.

What happens to my old coinbase or blockchain wallet address's if i am generated a new one? Like what if someone try's to refund me from like a week ago to my old btc wallet address?