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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: zhdust on March 31, 2022, 05:44:19 PM



Title: Wallet adress?
Post by: zhdust on March 31, 2022, 05:44:19 PM
Might be a newbie question, but i am trying to send BTc to my electrum wallet, but where do i find the adress i need to sent to? is the one i create under receive or is it my public key?


Title: Re: Wallet adress?
Post by: hosseinimr93 on March 31, 2022, 06:59:23 PM
Go to "Addresses" tab and use one of the addresses shown there. All those addresses are yours. If you don't see "Addresses" tab, click on "View" at top of window and select "Show addresses".
You can also go to "Receive" tab and click on "New address" button. In this way electrum will show an address at right side of the window. That's one of addresses shown in "Addresses" tab.

Warning:
Before sending bitcoin to your wallet, make sure you have downloaded electrum from its official website (https://electrum.org/#home) and you have the seed phrase (a series of 12 words) in a secure place.
Also, double check the address after copy-pasting that. There's a malware changing addresses to hackers addresses.


Title: Re: Wallet adress?
Post by: Pmalek on March 31, 2022, 07:24:24 PM
If you use the Addresses tab the way hosseinimr93 explained it to you, you will notice 20 receiving addresses highlighted in green and 10 change addresses in yellow by default. It's true that you can use any of those, but I recommend you use the receiving addresses when receiving coins. Any change that remains after you make an outgoing transaction will be sent to one of your change addresses. For an increase in privacy, use a new receiving address every time you request a new transaction.     


Title: Re: Wallet adress?
Post by: BitMaxz on March 31, 2022, 11:31:51 PM
To make it clear this is what you talking about where you create or click a new address under receive tab

https://i.imgur.com/I59PvcU.png

Under the address, it should show an only address that starts with bc1(Segwit) or 1(Legacy) so what you did from the address tab and created one receive address is the BTC address of your wallet. If you click new address it will generate a new address but still, it's your wallet Bitcoin address that you can find from the addresses tab pointing by hosseinimr93. To make it clear here's the image below

https://i.imgur.com/YMFqROB.png