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Title: Payments received, but not from my address.. Post by: Hello Kitty Bitcoins on February 18, 2013, 09:10:01 AM 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? Title: Re: Payments received, but not from my address.. Post by: Akka on February 18, 2013, 09:17:31 AM 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. Title: Re: Payments received, but not from my address.. Post by: Hello Kitty Bitcoins on February 18, 2013, 09:18:56 AM So the OCD in me is just going to have to suffer then..
Title: Re: Payments received, but not from my address.. Post by: DannyHamilton on February 18, 2013, 11:03:48 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 ? |