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Topic: Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing? (Read 1585 times)

sr. member
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Chad Hodler since 2013
January 01, 2018, 11:50:38 AM
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Could you specific in which environment is it changing? Local app wallet? Web browser? There are trojans/virues that changes addresses just after you paste them in input fields to stole your coins, so in that case, the fact that is changing is bad!
sr. member
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This is for your own security (said by a Blockchain care assistant)
The thing is your wallet contains more Bitcoin addresses that you can use again and again, but for your protection Blockchain technology constantly changing your bitcoin address for your own security
Yes surely it is just for your own benefit and your own security. I have bitcoin and will like if I will have proper safety for it. Now in several wallets bitcoin address use to change and will give you your own key word for your own bitcoin new address. It is fine to have your own password and your own benefit related to bitcoin wallet and safe key address.
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?
It changing constantly so that you can have more security because if your bitcoin address given to someone they can request payment thats why it changes constantly after a transaction is done.
legendary
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We should have more control over changes to public addresses and i bet lots of money goes missing because of this

if i want to change my email address every day for "Security" then that's my decision and maybe i want to scan the block chain
myself for all my spending and i have better things to do than to type in 50 transaction ID's

You are focusing too much on the addresses. Let the wallet manage the addresses. There is no need for you to get involved. My wallet has generated hundreds of addresses. I have never needed to keep track of them. My wallet lists every transaction I have ever made.

Either way, you can reuse addresses if you want. Get an address from your wallet, and print the QR code on a piece of paper and laminate it. Now you have your one address.
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This is for your own security (said by a Blockchain care assistant)
The thing is your wallet contains more Bitcoin addresses that you can use again and again, but for your protection Blockchain technology constantly changing your bitcoin address for your own security
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We should have more control over changes to public addresses and i bet lots of money goes missing because of this

if i want to change my email address every day for "Security" then that's my decision and maybe i want to scan the block chain
myself for all my spending and i have better things to do than to type in 50 transaction ID's
full member
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?

I don't have any idea why is it happen but one thing I know that is because bitcoin is not stable and it will change from time to time it will increase or decrease. We must be always positive that bitcoin will increase.
newbie
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They are trying to protect you from others spying on your bitcoin transactions. If they used the same address all your purchase history would be naked for everybody to see. Besides, we don't have to worry about the world running out of bitcoin addresses.
copper member
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Bitcoin address consequently changing it's obviously positive for help to secure.
legendary
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?
We need way more information than that. Are you using an online exchange? Or an online wallet? Are you using a desktop wallet that has a changing address? There's a lot of different things that need to be taken into account and you can't just ask why something is changing without explaining it more.

If it is an online wallet, then most wallets change addresses to help obscure the owner of a wallet. You will always receive your Bitcoin either way, though. If it is an offline wallet, then chances are it has a similar function but it is simply changing the public address and still lumping all your Bitcoin together.
legendary
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?
It's changing to protect your account that it should not be hack by some poor act by hacker in a globe network. Bitcoin is 100% secured network. Which is providing crypto currency in the name of bitcoin which is 100% secured therefore your address changing constantly. To protect your address 24 hours thank you.

Good explanation about this change. I also wondered why online wallets changes the adresses and I got my answer. I wish parity eth wallet to do the same as well like bitcoin.

Ethereum works differently.
full member
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?
It's changing to protect your account that it should not be hack by some poor act by hacker in a globe network. Bitcoin is 100% secured network. Which is providing crypto currency in the name of bitcoin which is 100% secured therefore your address changing constantly. To protect your address 24 hours thank you.

Good explanation about this change. I also wondered why online wallets changes the adresses and I got my answer. I wish parity eth wallet to do the same as well like bitcoin.
hero member
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?
It's changing to protect your account that it should not be hack by some poor act by hacker in a globe network. Bitcoin is 100% secured network. Which is providing crypto currency in the name of bitcoin which is 100% secured therefore your address changing constantly. To protect your address 24 hours thank you.
jr. member
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That is just your wallet generating new addresses for each time, but the old addresses are always usable and even viewable if you are using Electrum which does this for each tx.
hero member
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?

I'm confuse about this bitcoin wallet address that constantly changing!
I don't experience these thing sense I open my bitcoin wallet and other alt-coin wallet long time ago!

May be you should change your bitcoin wallet provider then if you experience this thing! to be sure that you don't loose all of your earnings.
jr. member
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Majority of online wallets generate a new address for every transaction (i.e after the address receives money, they add a new one for future transactions). The old one is still usable in all the wallets I tried, but according to blockchain.info, they do that to maintain user privacy and to avoid being linked to a single address.
sr. member
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All you have to do is to choose the right bitcoin wallet is indeed one of the bitcoin wallet there is a frequent change of address so it makes us worry if we make a deposit into it, I also have experienced it but I do not wear the wallet anymore because the address of the wallet Which is always changing which of course makes worries btc we can enter or not into the wallet.
hero member
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Blockchain.info also has the same features, but this shouldn't be a concern as your old address is still able to receive and functioning like it should. They are doing that so you'll have more security because more addresses makes its harder for you to be hacked, as far as I understood their explanation.
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Why is my bitcoin address constantly changing?
It would change if you do press the feature on receiving bitcoin. There are wallets that do have this kind of changing address for the sole purpose of privacy. Lets make an example on coinbase, I'm using it and I do have wallet address that I do create later on when I do make transactions on receiving bitcoin you can able to see another wallet address but still it would surely credit on your wallet if you do make transfers.
sr. member
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I observed in my blockchain wallet initially i got confused and then after reserch its nothing to care about . I always give my initial address got from Blockchain i kept it in notes always i send that address for recieving payment . Its just for the security purpose they change adderess. But in exchange wallet its always been same .
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