Payments received, but not from my address..

DannyHamilton

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Quote from: Hello Kitty Bitcoins on February 18, 2013, 05:18:56 AM

So the OCD in me is just going to have to suffer then..

Or use a different bitcoin client.

Bitcoin-Qt does not allow you to choose where the change goes in your transactions. It just creates a new address and hides it in your wallet.dat. I think there are other bitcoin clients that will allow you to choose a change address. I can't remember which ones. Maybe Electrum? or https://blockchain.info/wallet ?

Hello Kitty Bitcoins

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So the OCD in me is just going to have to suffer then..

Akka

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Your Bitcoin-QT has several addresses. You only get the once you created displayed, though.

You only can send the whole Transactions you revived to an address.

When you have revived 1 BTC to one of your addresses you have to send 1 BTC. Think of it as if you got a 1 Dollar Bill, you have to spend it completely and receive change back.

And that's exactly what happens. When you have this 1 BTC and now send 0.5 BTC you Bitcoin-QT sends one BTC. 0.5 BTC to the address you send 0.5 BTC and 0.5 BTC back to you as change.

To support the anonymity, you Bitcoind creates a new address to send the change to it.

Now if you send some BTC they might get send from that change address.

And that's what happened to you.

Hello Kitty Bitcoins

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I'm using Bitcoin-QT and I have one address: 15mpN3h8Q5Q4RakYbxW5w9q8uRFkTw49QY
I sent a friend some bitcoins and the address he got them from was: 1BVJDrzcpEK38bnuQKjiFo9opaxJpSe2oi
Is this something that happens?

I also sent some to satoshi dice, and it said I got them back at: 1PSqVy953YGZVYxa8kmqwA587N8gX85Xw7

What is going on here?

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