I checked my wallet address and it's not the same as before, why is that? And what happens if someone sends Dash to the other one? This is a little bit confusing...
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@TanteStefana thank you for taking the time to write such a great answer. One more question do, let's say I loose my main address where should I search for it if the Dash wallet app gives me new addresses? Or it does not matter?Hi @Gabriel Salinas . I don't want to sound like I'm talking down to you, so please forgive me if I'm being too basic. First of all, are you using the core wallet? The main one on your computer/desktop rather than a phone or tablet?
Anyways, a lot of wallets will pull up a new deposit address every time you request a payment. This is to help with the most basic privacy. If all you used was one address, anyone you gave that address to could look it up and see how much Dash you have, and how much you spent, and it can become a terrible security issue if someone discovers you are the person who has a large crypto balance in your address. So requesting a payment should give you a new address each time.
All your addresses act as a pool that give you your sum total of Dash.
In Dash you can also mix your coins. The first thing that happens in mixing is the units are broken down into units of 10.0001 1.001 0.100 etc.... and given new then they are "mixed" with other people's wallets (never really leaving your wallet's control) but on the blockchain, you only see a bunch of the same unit values coming in and going out, thus you can't tell which input belongs to which output. Yet everything is visible on the blockchain.
So my first thought as to why your coins are in multiple addresses are:
1. you requested a payment in the wallet, which opened a new address automatically or
2. you accidentally hit mixing which is a button in the core wallet.
Please let me know if I was not understanding, but I hope that helped a little bit??
Isn't this a paine for users? In theory sounds nice but in the practice you don't want to do that...Also when sending money to people always ask them for a brand new bitcoin address.
I never thought about an scenario like this.. Privacy in this case makes so much sense..Worked Example 1 - Savings Revealed
- You save in bitcoin, using a single-address paper wallet.
- All your bitcoin savings to this same address, let's say it contains $1 million worth.
- You buy a small amount of bitcoins to add to your savings, depositing in the paper wallet.
- The person who sold you the bitcoins follows their trail on the blockchain and finds your paper wallet containing $1 million.
- He mentions it to someone in a cafe or bar.
- Word gets around. A burglar raids your home. Kidnappers capture your children and know exactly how much to demand in ransom.
It can be, but when dealing with cryptocurrency security is the highest priority - if it's not secure nothing else matters. This user experience issue was part of the motivation behind the DashPay wallet that is being built on Dash Platform. This DashPay DIP describes how this will work without compromising security : https://github.com/dashpay/dips/blob/master/dip-0015.md#dashpay-features.I quote from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address_reuse
Isn't this a paine for users? In theory sounds nice but in the practice you don't want to do that...
And I'm so sorry for disappearing, I have lost the habit of using the forum, and will try to be a better member@TanteStefana thank you for taking the time to write such a great answer. One more question do, let's say I loose my main address where should I search for it if the Dash wallet app gives me new addresses? Or it does not matter?