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When whatching some videos about bitcoin i came to know there is lots of address can be made for bitcoin almost unlimited. So creating many addresses doesn't seem to affect bitcoin network.

I have around 3 address 2 of those are cold wallet address and 1 main everyday hot wallet. I have Cold wallet to store in safer place and stop me from spending madly in gamblings.


How much bitcoin address do you have and why you have to create more than one address?

1 cold - 1 on laptop - 1 on destop - 1 on phone   - I dont keep much on the phone one just around .05 in case there is actually a store in california that takes btc I will pay with it for fun. Bought a burrito with btc in a small mom and pop place near concord while playing golf.

>100. Because I can not imagine how you keep track of things with just a single address. For every deal (except low value) I generate a new address and usually for long term deal (e.g. sig campaigns) a new address monthly. When I see an incoming payment on the address I labeled with "vanitygen Quickseller x 20" I know who paid me for what. How do you do this with just a single address?

The other thing is, with the high number of addresses its difficult for someone to know how much bitcoin I have in total. If you just have a few its pretty easy to find them.

the more the better.

I use Electrum: good thing is it keeps track of my addresses otherwise I would be doomed!  ;D
Everytime I go for new transaction he uses a new address, which is a good thing. And I don't have to worry about change addresses. With core I lost some bits because of the change. I did not know what it was: but now I know and I prefere to use Electrum wallet.

I have 3 hot wallet/address, >30 addresses for various services, 10 for loans, 1 cold storage. With more than one Bitcoin addresses, there are more privacy and it is easier to see the purpose of the transactions since they're all labeled. I currently don't use HD wallet yet, might do so in the future. I found it easier to not use change address as it's rather confusing.

I have maybe 10 or more, I use more than one because I think it would be hard to track for my own safe.

There are some attacks made easier if you knew the public key for an address. The public key only gets revealed after you send coins from an address, so it's safer not to reuse an old address after you have sent coins from it. I try to use a new address each time I send coins, and I only keep what I intend to spend in an address, so I have loads of addresses with small amounts in.

i think there is some confusion here, some users think you're talking about wallet, other address

i have 3 wallet, the two for cold storage have only two three address, the hot wallet instead has many i didn't count them, but i create every once in a while, if i move big funds

i have 4 bicoin adresses i use them all for different reason like working gambling storing etc

Far over 1000 because re-using addresses is bad practice for financial privacy and security.

I always use more than one address and use new address for change to keep anonymity

For some strange reason many people make the mistake of thinking of a bitcoin address as an account number. It is not.  It doesn't behave anything like an account.  Treating it that way only leads to more confusion for the poor fools that make that mistake.

A bitcoin address is an invoice number.  It's a way to keep track of a specific payment request.  Therefore, it doesn't make any sense to re-use bitcoin addresses. I use a new address for every transaction, so by now I probably have several hundred bitcoin addresses.

I created so two addresses from my bitcoin wallet, I just used for my phone and another for my laptop.. Creating many address is very good feature from bitcoin.

I have way more than just 1 Address..
Just due to the fact that i need at least 5 to 6 to sperate different Incomes and keep an eye on everything that joins or leaves my Wallet.
Of course this would still be possible with only 1 address..
But this way its more organized.
At this moment i have like 10 Addresses on my Desktop and about 7 on my Mobile Wallet.

I have more than 1100 Bitcoin adresses. I use them to exploit faucet websites.

That's a great way to explain it! I to have several hundred addresses from different transactions.

i currently have like 3 hot wallet addresses and 1 paper wallet address for cold storage i use.

I have like 6 blockchain.info addresses which i rarely use it, have like ~20 in coinbase, used/tested then deleted 2 in electrum, 2 in mycelium, 2 or 3 in bitcoin wallet for Android, didn't create many btc address because I don't have many transactions for the moment so i know from where i got my payments and where i spent it..

 OFFTOPICK: what wallet do you use?

at this moment i have 6 bitcoin addresses that i actively use. i used to have more, but it is a lot work to maintain every address properly if you have like 20 or more addresses.

I have three bitcoin wallet address and i operate all by my phone only.

At the moment I only have one, still learning about bitcoin everyday.

I don't think it is strange at all, people are used to thinking in account number or "payment destination" terms.

Indeed if you think about the invoice number example, whilst the invoice number is unique to the request for payment, it is not where you send the payment, that is the account number.  And really the Bitcoin address does work more like an account number since you can send several payments to the same address and they go to the same "destination".

Thinking further if one were to be paid one's monthly salary in Bitcoin, who would that work in practice in the new address fo every transaction model?  Do you need to give your employer a new address every month?  And they need to re-schedule the payment run every month?

I think it must be around 3000 now. And yes, the previous posters are right. You should not reuse addresses. Better have them unique for one transaction.

The simplest reason is... why would you let everyone look into your wallet and let them know everything you dealt with, where you are invested, that you gambled or tipped cammodels on a sex site? But if your addresses can be connected then you reveal more infos about you than you would wish.

The risk still is there when you not reuse addresses, for example with change addresses since when you send a payment and you send from 2 input addresses than those 2 addresses are connected too, together with all transactions these two addresses had.

One has to think about that carefully.

Probably more than 1000. It's suggested that you use different address for every transaction. Even you have big BTC in one of your addresses, when you use it change is coming to your newly generated change address. That's for security purpose.

I have control of more than ten addresses. Back before I use Mycelium as my wallet I used MultiBit. The software tell us to create multiple addresses to receive money from different people. So I created multiple addresses to receive money from different faucets. I quit Bitcoin after knowing faucets will not make me 1 USD easily. Even though I quit, I did not uninstall MultiBit.

When I came back in October last year, I have an Android phone. So I checked Bitcoin.org for some Android based wallet. I am fond of the design Mycelium have. So I uses it. I have only a few wallets in my Mycelium software. One being my old address and another one being my vanity address. I also have control of some vanity address private key on my computer such as 1Bit, 1Face and many others.

Lots lost track of them down the line but using 1 steadily

I had around 11.

I use to run a small website where I did tips on getting started with bitcoin; "walkthroughs", BTC giveaways, links to faucets, and many other things. After that got going I found this site where I started doing daily raffles and TwitterGames. Gave away probably around BTC12 in BTC0.1 and BTC0.01 increments with some larger prizes occasionally. Some of that was from support from this great community by means of donations which became necessary after the raffles and games got larger. I needed those multiple address to keep track of various "accounts" for the site and the games I did on here; donations in, prizes out, main wallet, cold storage, and some wallets for other ventures. It was great and I met some really awesome people who wouldn't have been able to get into bitcoin without the small (then small) raffles and information. I had to stop doing the site when life got in the way; I moved, then school, a job, a girlfriend etc. It was so cool though that people on here donated/helped out to keep the raffles going and get newbies up to speed. Unbelievably good times. This forum does some real good for the community. I want to bring my small part of it back, albeit in much smaller amounts now that BTC is worth way more than $45 a coin. I'm not able to do this right now. Maybe after I sell a few bitcoin related things I'll be able to reach that goal.

Anyway, thats my story, and if tl;dr I needed multiple addresses for organization purposes.

many addresses

Thousands? And thats what everyone should have. At least if securing your BTC is your priority.

Some people like to have one receiving address, but HD wallets are much more secure and there's not really a reason to not use one different address for every receiving transactions.

HD wallets aren't more secure than regular wallets. They do prevent losses by making wallets do one time backup but if someone gets the key, all your addresses generated from that will be compromised. Wallets like Bitcoin Core only pregenerate 100 address so even if someone gets the old backup with your 100 used key, they can't do much.

HD Wallets are more secure in the way they generate the next address, and the next. It solve the problem of Hierarchical vs Deterministic method of seed and sequence. As long as you keep the master key, you can regenerate all the addresses after that so losing your wallet.dat is not a problem, like it is with non HD wallets.

It also has other useful to negligible benefits.

I like the fact that it helps making the transactions you do no related to one another. I appreciate the fact some exchanges has integrated this into automatically changing the receiving address as well.

This also help contribute to security. :)

I currently hold BTC in 8 addresses.  I've probably used about 500.

i have 3 address so far, im not sure why need alot of address,. had 3 but only use 1 of it  ;D
but how to create cold wallet or hot wallet? and how that work actually

I have a lot of address especially the one i used back in 2012 ;D
For now i have about in total 40-ish
And from that many i only using 3 address :P
I forogt the password for the rest of the address

I think, I must have over 150 addresses to date... I create a new address for every new service I use and I test all
wallets online, with a unique address. How can you evaluate a service or a wallet provider, if you have not tried all of
them. I also created 100's of paper wallets and then destroyed the computer it was created on.

I also use some honey pot addresses, to trigger traps on my desktops. {unprotected addresses with small amounts of coins}  ;D

I think I only have a total of 9 addresses to my name, and most of them are empty if I remember correctly.

I have more than one as a means of dividing up large amounts of coins I used to have, but I don't particularly have large stores behind me right now, so I leave my remaining $.70 in a single account.

I want to try out one of my paper wallets, but that can wait.

I have a different address for almost every transaction. I just use it to keep track of what i receive and what I send out. It is just for record keeping and simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.  ;D

In terms of security, both of them generate the private key without additional benefits to the security, only to the convenience of backing up the seed once and only. If someone has access to your seed, you would get all your coins hacked. With Bitcoin Core and other non HD wallets, they can't possibly get the whole list of address the user is using if they get an older backup.

Currently, the main use is for privacy and labeling. There is no risk of compromising the private key even if it has been used many times, till quantum computing comes out. Just look at satoshidice. As long as the RNG is not weak when generating transaction or private key. Exchange use different address to credit the correct account.

I have 3 address, but I only use one main, have many addresses to me is a bother.
2 other address only for the purposes of others.

I create new address of almost every new transaction. I think this is good practice to increase security. I do not care too much about number of address I have. This is task for my wallets I am using.

I probably have atleast 20+ addys that I could receive BTC at.

I have about seven addresses, but I only use two. I think the main reason for having many is because they are very easy to create.

I have about 5-10 ones i might use right now. Over last couple years i probably had around 100 i've used. 

That is really weird man, I am so sorry for every websites that you have been exploited till now.

I'm using 2 address atm.
1 for small amount on an online wallet.
1 for my btc saving on an paper wallet.

I plan to create a new paper one, once the first reach 2 btc.

Yup its good and I have 2 wallet and nearly 10 addresses. I have classified my addresses for transactions like buying and selling in different addresses and In this I have 2 most secure addresses to save my bitcoins regularly.

Bitcoin is NOT anonymous (http://www.bitcoinisnotanonymous.com/). So if you have 2 or 3 address you are doing it wrong. For each transaction, ideally one should have new address.

I have a couple of addresses. All for different reasons but mainly because I believe it's safer to have some bitcoins spread out.

i just use 3 addresses... why do you need more than that. ;)

Why is that how much is better? Is it safer? Is it ... ? So can you tell me pls.

For now I have just 5 address if I have a lot I am gonna be crazy.

I have a few addresses I re-use (like the one I use for signature campaign payouts) but otherwise I always use a new address for every transaction.

Well, not counting change address, I have like 10.
Most are pre generated by Electrum, and 2 are imported private keys from my old qt wallet.
Some address I use for one time deals, and some of them are "public", like the one in my profile, so people know that this is me.

Right now I have 4 Bitcoin address, but I just like to have 10 I think that is good number.

So that I have 1 BTC in every address. 

I dont remember,but coinbase give many different address every generate,and that my only wallet,so i dont use blockchain anymore.

maybe more than 50 address  :D
but i have only 3 active address
1 i use it to spending everyday if i need
1 i use it to hold in paperwallet
1 i use it to faucet

For now I just have 3 might be adding more to this in the future

I don't need that many for now seeing as I don't own that many bitcoins right now.

Started with one address, but now I use more to have better track from where the coins come. It is easy to use many addresses with a wallet, so there is little reason to have just one address.

I have more than 10 because i usually use different address in different transactions.

I have more than 20 Bitcoin address, sometime is just pain in the ass to control wich is what.

But having so much is kinda good for me than if some thing happend than i have the others.

If you use blockchain, you could name them so it's easier to keep up what's what

You can label your addresses with almost every client that I know of. Blockchain.info is a service which allows users to publicly display the names attached to the address. It isn't accurate at times since anyone can use satoshi nakamoto as the name as long as they make a website with the name and address with it.

i currently have three bitcoin addresses right now. 1 paper wallet and two hot wallet addresses.

I only have 2 addresses. 1 if them is my cold wallet, where I store most of my bitcoin, which is around 10 bitcoin. I also have another wallet, a web wallet where I keep some 'extra change' so I can do stuff like shop and gamble, very conveniently.

Out of those 20 wallets he has, I bet that more than half of them aren't online wallets. Blockchain is also pretty unreliable, with all its crashing and security issues. I prefer Coinbase as it is easier and safer to use. They also pay the miners fees for your first 1000 transactions.

ago, when i still play faucet
i have many wallet and many address, it is a help to get a lot of satoshi, in one hour, I could make hundreds of claims by many addresses,
but now I only have 1 address

I have mycellium wallet = 1 address .
I have blockchain wallet = 1 address .
And yesterday i just tried new wallet bitgo . So total i have 3 address. I only used mycellium wallet , the other not often.

If you are using Coinbase to store your coins, most likely you'll have more than 1 BTC address as Coinbase generates new BTC address for every transaction. I think having 2-3 BTC address is enough. I have 2 BTC address, 1 from Coinbase and 1 from Blockchain

They say it was said by Satoshi to "use the address once and discard it " ,other than that it is much difficult for people to track you and you could keep track of all the deals you have ever done (by labeling the address) if you create a new address per transaction.
I got around 400~ maybe.

3 Addresses, Just because it's very easy to make more than one, no specific reason for having more than one though.

I do not know how people are managing many bitcoin addresses. I have created 10 addresses using multibit, but 7 of them still unused. I do receive facuet payments and my signature campaign payments are all in one address and I could not find any advantages of using many addresses.

I just have 10 address to receive money from various sources. The number will increase in the future when I have more income.

Why do people need so many bitcoin addresses? Like isn't 10 addresses a bit much. Just use 1 or 2 as your cold wallet and then another 1 to keep your change in that you can use for gambling, trading and ask that kind of stuff.

talking about addresses here not wallet, they are used for anonimity, for every new transaction you change one

there is also another reason why they are useful, because if your wallet get stolen, and then you create another address, this new address will not be in the hacker wallet, so you can safely send funds there again, without creating a new wallet

Anonymity wouldn't be achieved if you don't use a wallet like Bitcoin Core which allows users to select inputs. If the wallet doesn't allow, the address could be spend linked together.

It would depend on what wallet type it is. For HD wallets, the address generated are predictable and hence a new seed would be required.

I find it confusing if I were to use one address for example loans. It would be hard to tell who repaid. Hence, I create 10 addresses and assign them to different loans.

yeah in fact i'm using only core for this type of thing, i don't like spv client, but armory interest me since it's core plus other useful thing

I guess I have around 30 wallets in use right now, of which around 20 wallets are to store my cold wallet coins. I like to spread my coins into plenty of addresses to make it difficult for any one to know how much coins I exactly have. That's the main reason.

I think you do not "create" bitcoin addresses... They already exist.

I have four addresses:

1 for everyday, normal (re)use. The most active address.
1 for storing bitcoins for specific purpose.
1 for storing bitcoin for another specific purpose.
1 for storing bitcoin for another specific purpose, in "cold storage".

And that is how I organize my bitcoins.

I hate having my bitcoins in some "wallet.dat" file and having to use a different address every time as many suggest. This I'll never do, it is simply annoying.

I only have 1 bitcoin address.
It is new and has never been altogether payout

I have a couple of online wallets because I believe it's safer to spread your bitcoins rather than having it all stacked up in 1 wallet

It's better to have it spread out.

i just have one wallet,but it generate many bitcoin address,i also dont know why coinbase always change my address when i generate from wallet.
but i have many more from exchange,i have generate so many from exchange,its do by my self ;D

Same for me.  It took me awhile to branch out but I did and am glad I have multiple wallets.

Right, every bitcoin address already exists.  It's simply that a keypair (private key, public key) combination is found. Because it's impossible to guess a private key, it's said that a person 'owns' the bitcoins.

How much bitcoin address do you have and why you have to create more than one address?
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I have two bitcoin address now. Once for Xapo, one for Blockchain. I usually use Blockchain for any transaction before this, but when i knew that Xapo didn't take any fee for transaction, thats why i created that wallet address. But, now, i use Blockchain again because all my payment  goes to this wallet.   ;D

I got multiple wallets for different reasons, I like to keep some things separate from the other so I know where the money is coming from on each account.

I like to do it this way, just because I like to have it organized like that and it's better to have multiple wallets, don't think it's safe to have all your bitcoins in 1 wallet

I got around 4 or 5 online wallets, and one offline wallet I got on a PC

I got a couple online since that's where I'm putting the bitcoins I'll be using and the offline wallet is for saving and stacking up bitcoins.

I've got 3. One cold storage, one blockchain.info wallet and one hot wallet.

To people with more than 20 wallets: WTF.

The OP asking about Bitcoin address, not the wallet. Do you guys even know what is the different between Bitcoin "address" and Bitcoin "Wallet"?

I probably have almost near 100 since I have used always a different one each time, considering i have been in the game for a couple of years now and always have tried to never reuse addresses as most people should be doing, so yeah around that. I don't even keep track anymore.

I have a few,some on the exchanges also and they can change from time to time but I don't really need hundreds it's easier for me to just have a few.

Is is safer to have a few, one for each use?

At this moment I have 0.2 worth of bitcoins , I won it at a raffle promo.

That's a good idea to separate them. It is inspires me to do like that and keep spirit looking for bitcoin

I only have 1 bitcoin address

Just have one bitcoin address is enough to make me tired.  Bitcoin in my wallet is not more than 20K sathosi. But i don't give up

I have 2 cold storage wallets and 3 regular wallets for daily spending.

I use multiple wallets because i want to keep some of them private and others to use in public, like on this forum.

Um.. excuse me sir, the OP asked about how many BITCOIN ADDRESS do you have, not how much Bitcoin do you have.

It's totally not safe for you, if someone hack your wallet or maybe you lost the private key then you will lose everything.

Used to have a lot of cold storage addresses, merged them into 2 cold addresses now and I have ~4 normal use addresses with 1 of these being a heavy use address, reason being just for filtration purposes of different income methods and the heavily used address is just my general spending address.

If someone does hack your wallet, all your addresses would also get hacked if you placed them altogether. It's 2015, is there anyone still not having a backup to their private key? There is no risk from hacking even if you reuse the address right now, it is only about the privacy.

To solve this problem you should use a wallet program that keeps track of the "balance" of each of your addresses. A deterministic wallet is going to be the best solution for this (I like electrum) however, non-deterministic wallets will allow you to pre-generate addresses whose private keys you can save (and backup) prior to using. I would actually recommend against generating a new private key at the time you need a new address because best security practices say that you should have multiple backups of your private key or seed (you should have at least 3) in multiple locations (at least two) and it is difficult to do this at the time you need someone to send you BTC (presumably they will send the BTC as soon as they receive the address to send to).

I recently had to create/generate a new electrum wallet because my previous one was having performance issues due to the number of transactions associated with my xpubkey and the number of addresses that electrum was mum monitoring and it was difficult to get electrum to sync and needed to restart electrum almost every time I received a tx. It was actually pretty scary having to generate a new electrum seed and backing up the seed, it is something that I would personally like to avoid as much as possible.

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to answer the question in the OP, between the three electrum wallets, two blockchain.info wallets, one multibit wallet and one armory wallet, I would estimate that I have well in excess of 1,000 addresses that have received at least one transaction and whose private key I control. If you were to add all the coinbase/bitfinex addresses that have received at least one transaction and that I would receive credit for BTC for any transaction sent to those addresses then the number could potentially increase to closer to 2,000 but I think that might be a bit of a stretch (I estimate that the number that includes exchange addresses would be under 1,500).

I have made a total of 20 or so addresses just for the sake of jumbling and rumbling my balance on different addresses, so as to minimize the 'taint' it leaves on the blockchain. At first I don't get why the bitcoin wiki advised not to use the same wallet over and over again, but as time passed by, I realized that it is indeed a much safer approach on keeping your balance compared to just one.

I have 3 wallet and address different, each wallet have their respective functions, one wallet for trading, and one wallet for sig camp and one more for faucet

I did not that one must not reuse bitcoin address to remain anonymous. I have 2 bitcoin wallet, but I am using only one address each. Now I know it, I will create different address per transaction.

i have right now 2 bitcoin address one is for my online gambling purpose through which i bet on sports betting and the other one is for my savings where i save the bitcoin for my future expenses.

Yes, this is the basic step you can do to increase your financial privacy with bitcoin. Remember, bitcoin is not anonymous (http://www.bitcoinisnotanonymous.com/)

That's why you have to use more than 1 wallet
Anything could happen, how if you somehow accidentally remove the backup

i have 2 bitcoin addresses the one i posted in Stake your Bitcoin address here and another one created later with vanitygen

I have about 4 just to keep track of what and who is paying what

So far I have... one address on blockchain and 20 + addresses on Electrum. I created new addresses for each transaction. It's just so much simpler and easier to keep track of what is going in and going out.

I have 5 wallet 4 of them is where I kept my bit coin for daily and monthly use
My last one is offline wallet this is where I keep my saving and my emergency
Bit coin. Having several wallet gives you more security to your btc, I think.

I have a total of two addresses that handle all the bitcoins trading that i engage in. One is for paying my bills among other necessities that i require on a daily basis. It is like my salary account. the second one is so special, I use it only on the matters to do with investment. I did this so that I can be able to differentiate and even have control over what I am spending. I do not want to own more than two accounts since these two work out for me.

Well above 50. For every new transaction from a new person, I make a new little wallet with their name on it. This is so they can reuse that address, and I can keep track of my transactions. If only my bitcoin wallet allowed me to label transactions sent to me. If I only had one wallet address, id have to keep up with ~50 txes a day. Hell no.

I have the address about 2-3. 2-3 is the main address, but actually I have a lot, because I'm always change.
I divide each address for gambling, trading or other.

i have 3 bitcoin address currently 1 blockchain address for the main wallet, 1 poloniex exchange address for deposit and do trading activity into that exchange and 1 local exchange address if i want to convert my bitcoin into my currency

I have many addresses mostly for cold storage, it allows me to split my bitcoin holdings up so that if a private key was compromised i wouldn't lose every thing.  bitcoin was originally designed for an address to only be used once anyway.  for security and anonymity reasons.  check out the link below


https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address_reuse

lol I just know, if you have only 1 address, its very risky and not safe  ::)

Well, having one address doesn't mean it isn't safe, it just means that if anything happens to that one address that it would affect his entire wallet. If he knows what he is doing, one address will be all he'll need. People just suggest multiple addresses for the partially increased anonymity and the ability to divide your funds among the wallets to prevent you from losing all of your funds if something happens. You can have 5 addresses on one hard drive and if the hard drive gets corrupted or is damaged, that's the end of the entire set of funds.

ago, when i still play faucet
i have many wallet and many address, it is a help to get a lot of satoshi, in one hour, I could make hundreds of claims by many addresses,
but now I only have 1 address

Have 3 currently, one is my main address I use to send and receive payments, another is a secondary address for micro earnings, and the last one I deposit all my earnings into it, where I store it there, never to be touched again. :)

I don't like to have many addresses, especially using a new address every time. I don't really see anonymity as an importance, so I'm fine with just using a main address for my funds.

I've got about 100 because when I first started btc I didn't understand exactly how it worked so spammed the new address button to try and get one I liked.

you created addresses until you found one you like? haha never heard of that before

It's pretty much called a vanity address. You could even brute force millions of addresses  per minute to find the address that suits you.

You can read more about it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0)

I have like 3 addresses total.

Hahaha yeah when I start opening my first online wallet I was just why this address I don't like it.
Then I was like oh well lets experiment this wallet I don't really like it. But I make a new and that one was my main now :D

i have got what some 10 or above bitcoins address with me and online web wallets are creating each address for each sent bitcoins so i dont have count of how many address i have got. some i kept for my savings which i dont touch and some i kept for doing gambling purpose so that if tha address are hacked i wont get any problem.

This reason can be accepted, 1 address does not mean unsafe, but I prefer to many addresses, for more anonymity

I got only 1 on blockchain, but now I'm expecting some large amount of btc so I think I'll store it on desktop wallet

I can't label transactions after they've been made, so I name an address basically per transaction, so if I ever want to check or find a past transaction, I can just find the address I labelled for that transaction

I have 1 bitcoin address that is my main and I just put there some bitcoin for business stuff.
I have more bitcoin address or other wallets, because if something is go to happen with my bitcoin than I have at least the others.

I have for now 2 bitcoin address the one is just my personal and the other is just to learn about bitcoin.
I am just trying to get more infomartion about it.

i have 3 bitcoin address right now..
the primary one for campaign and trading
the second one for faucet and games
and the last one for gambling

Unlimited. I use different addresses for different places. Satoshi want us to use different addresses for every transaction. It's the nature of Bitcoin. There are infinite Bitcoin addresses, why use only a dozen?

I can't even count the amount of addresses i have. In 2011 i first installed bitcoin client, and i found it interesting that you could create countless amounts of addresses - so i
did just that. It had no worth to it, it was just a bunch of empty addresses. Don't know why i wanted to have more than one, probably just to differentiate and monitor different deposits more easily i guess.

cheers

If I count every single address that has funds on it, I'd say that I have around 20 addresses. I don't have so many to don't be tracked (I don't care if people know how much I own) but because I like to have a defined address for a defined purpose.

I am using just 3 addresses from my starting days because I feel its not good idea to have many addresses but now after reading some posts from Danny Hamilton thinking to use new address for every transaction is much better idea

I have some of them ofc, you know 1 for "daily things" and the rest to try to keep safe some of my satoshis  ;)

Btw i´m not counting here all those from exchanges etc etc, so why i have more than 1? so simply, because i think that is really needed, well maybe you dont need to have 3k of address but at least few of them for different purposes are needed IMHO.

I have like 3 in different systems but my main one is from Xapo as of today and we all know they use dynamic ones so I don't really have access to it if I wanted to.

I recently have sent micro earnings directly to betting site address to avoid dealing with all the hassle back and forth. It's not much of course but I bet some and see if I hit a jackpot once in a while hehe.

At least 50.  I use multiple services for different reasons, and have always labeled addresses based on where they are deposited from.  I keep certain mining addresses on one wallet for tax purposes, and I have addresses for cold storage as well as exchange addresses.  

I own just 5. 1 for payments, 1 for savings and 3 for a combination of the above. I don't feel the need to get a lot of addresses right now. Maybe if we can have more causes i.e. spending etc. i will add some more.

if you player faucet, certainly you have a lot address maybe 50 more, you know what i mean  ;D

Oh there is. Or would you place a list with all your transactions at the door of your flat so that everyone can read everywhere where you sent money to or received money from? Allowing that different bitcoin addresses are connectable leads to you letting everyone know where you are involved. If you tipped some cammodels, you took part in ponzies or whatever. It could be seen relatively easy.

Check out walletexplorer.com. They try to find out which addresses belong to which website and wallet. Maybe you already can find more about you than you thought.

If you only receie payments from the same source then it would not make a big difference. But handling many addresses is not hard. You would be able to lable each address with the actual trade that happened. And you don't need to care about old addresses anymore.

I have a very small number of addresses because all my coins are in cold storage.  I don't actually use bitcoin .

In my opinion:
Wallets just make things more complicated, it just adds more complexity and dependence.

You suggest I keep all my bitcoins "randomly" distributed between thousands of addresses?! No, thanks!

I'd just keep them all in 1 address and "spend<->receive" forever. It is just much simpler.

End of opinion.

i just have one bitcoin address(only one wallet).
because for now, I do not need to have more than two bitcoin address.. but in next several month i'll make new btc address.

Dunno, maybe 10 or 11.

Some dude called Satoshi recommended the use of 1 addres for each transaction, so I try to do it

You can do this, but only if you don't care about anonymity at all. Because handling addresses that way, maybe even with using change addresses, will lead to all of your transactions connectable. Try walletexplorer.com and see what you find about your addresses. In case you use your wallet the way you suggested.

Check the public addresses that are known to be connected to your userame and see what informations you find about your wallet and the financial connections you have.

Nobody says you should let the wallet do it randomly. I would say disable change addresses first, they are a tool to connect all your bitcoin addresses in your wallet and so a tool for losing anonymity. Then everytime you send funds, decide on your own from which addresses the coins should be taken from. Then you can decide if addresses can or should not be connected.

At the end you don't have a business and a private bank account. Not one account where you let all transactions go through. It simply becomes cluttered and you will have a hard time to find out what happened in the past.

I have more than 15 bitcoin addresses auto generated in coinbase even i dont click a generate new address..
I am looking for a settings to stop this auto generated addresses. because i dont use some of addresses.
Some its generate 5 bitcoin addresses in one day... Maybe after the year ends my bitcoin address will increase into 25 bitcoin addresses which is not useable or i can not use..

Im using only 1 atm,im new into this but im sure ill open more in te future :)

Do you speak about change addresses? They don't lead to stopping to the connection, in fact it is the opposite. Nearly all the wallet addresses found by walletexplorer are found through change addresses most of the time.

Or do you mean a different feature?

Yeah, this honestly doesn't matter when you think about the fact that no matter how many address are created in your wallet, all the payments you request with different addresses end up going to the same place. The main thing here is that you (in this case coinbase) has the private key for that wallet which solely controls the bitcoins, and you just have to provide the password to access the use of that private key.

Which is mainly why I don't keep funds in coinbase or any exchange site wallet, because I don't control the private key.

I have 2 online bitcoin wallets, the first is blockchain which is my first bitcoin wallet when i know about bitcoin. the second one is xapo, why xapo? because it's for faucet games, that's farmsatoshi.

i dont know,i always generate from coinbase,and every time i generate,its will different,so i have so many bitcoin address,and its hard to me to know one of them.

I just want to maintain my one of my address and if i forgot my address i can easily find my address by clicking wallet address.
Because of auto generated address you need to go to advance settings and look for it.
My problem is if i forgot my old address how can know if what address is my old..
sometimes i use my old address to login on any faucet thats why i need to stop the auto generated address on my wallet account.

I have more than 10 address just for variations . and very useful for claim faucet

even though people tell me to use a new address for every tranaction, i just use the same one over and over. in totali have about 3 addressees.

I have 3 just because i have one desktop, one mobile and one online. Otherwise i would be just fine with one(same for PC and mobile).

now i have only two addresses as i dont need to have any more of it the first one is my hot storage wallet which i use nearly every day to do small transactions and the other one is my cold storage wallet where i save up all my bitcoins that i do not need to use as i believe that its a good investment

Probably hundreds of different addresses if you use a Wallet that changes for every receive.

I only have three btc address right now. Its advisable to not store all your bitcoin in 1 address because if the wallet goes down or hack atleast your all bitcoin won't lost coz you divided it in your diff. address.

have much, I use a different address every transaction make it more secure

using a new address for each transaction, what does it do?
I always use the same address every transaction, no need to worry

I have 5 wallets 4 web wallets and from an exchange site and my mycelium wallet. I use differen walle depending on where I use it but I mainly use only two of them, my myceloum and my main wallet from a local exchange site. :D

i have 4 wallets right now, and each have their respective functions . the first for the sale and purchase transactions , the second for trading , the third for investment , and the fourth to play faucet .

in my opinion exchanger is not wallet jace :D
just beware save bitcoin in exchange, I fear something like Mt Gox will happen again

Not bad management . Every people who had more then one address bitcoin must do like you. It would be very efficient and effective .

I got three wallets currently.
1. Blockchain Wallet - Daily Transaction Wallet for Sending and Receiving Funds
2. Multibit HD- New Address for each transaction. (Generally on the Smaller Side < 1 bitcoin)
3. Electrum + Trezor/KeepKey -(100+) Addresses for holding large amounts of bitcoin

But I have only online wallet.
So far I have used bitcoin like a earning money for daily needs and I do not think about saving it for future higher prices. So, I did not think about different wallets for security and long standing. Now I started to save bitcoin like an investment. Soon I too will have many different wallets.

have quite a few. troublesome to keep track of them

I don't even remember correctly how much bitcoin address's i owned..currently i own 4-5 address's for different purposes like signature compaign,gambling,betting,purchasing etc..I use different address's because it helps in staying secure with your Coins,avoid tracking and helps in being anonymous.

All the wallets I have are currently one for myself. I have no others for anyone else or even myself. I didn't yet see a need for

additional wallets. Might be that one day I will, but again, maybe not. This is not counting a debit card or the like.

At last count (A couple of weeks ago), I was somewhere around 57 addresses. Mainly for each transaction I make, I use a different address. I don't like recieving a random 0.07 BTC, then spending it, thinking it's a tip, but in actuality it's my friend giving me a few coins to hold for him while he's on holiday...

I have more then one to keep track of where and who the money is received from to avoid me losing track of payments.

I currently have three, one for tremorgames another for payment from sales on here and my paper wallet address for savings.

But when you have to make a large payment, you have to get fund for several address, that will also let other people know that these address belong to one person.

I have more than 30 BTC addresses. I dont want anyone to know how much I have.

I think I have over 100 + Bitcoin addresses, I always use unique addresses for receiving payments. I use Electrum as my wallet so it also spends from a wallet address and next time I don't have to use those addresses.

I have more than one because I like to be organized as to what I'm using bitcoin for
I have different kinds of wallets for all kinds of reasons.

At least 50.  I use multiple services for different reasons, and have always labeled addresses based on where they are deposited from.  I keep certain mining addresses on one wallet for tax purposes, and I have addresses for cold storage as well as exchange addresses. 

I just have one bitcoin address for nowadays but if i need more then one address in future for many different uses, i will make second until third address again.

If I only have one bitcoin address because I had only one goal in bitcoin is only collected on a signature campaign.
Maybe if I was interested in gambling or other trades that even I will make a few more addresses

Multiple addresses in multiple wallets for a multitude of reasons.

When I was mining it was nice to have separate wallets for each pool.
As others have pointed out: it is an excellent way to track invoices.
Some coin is stored offline and some to spend.


One of my addresses is a function of having a Coinbase account.
I think I'm about to try the Shift card linked to a Coinbase account,
and in that case it is a comfort to think that only what is in that account
is at risk (for whatever the usual and/or unforeseen risks may be ;-)

Right now a have i more than 20 address. And 3 wallet. 2 exchanges and 1blockchain. I dont have a cold storage i dont have a knowledge about it yet maybe if i have a huge amount i make one. Blockchain is my favorite its easy to use and its awesome features

my xapo wallet address always change each transaction. doesn't it count as more than one
but i only have one wallet

i have multiple addresses that i have lost count of them. they are mostly from old addresses that i have used over the years.

i also have around 10 fixed addresses for cold storage, receiving faucet payouts, receiving other payments like signature campaing and an address to spend from on my online wallet.

I choose more than 10 bitcoin address .. I chose to use many addresses as to ensure the safety of my main bitcoin address.

I also had address more than 10. yes some special address for some income. like Special for play gambling, investment or trading and other.

yeah better to have many addresses,
more confidential and anonymous, there is no prohibition also wear a lot of addresses
I have more than 100 addresses

That is more than one address.

I have more than 20 wallets. In each wallet, I use many address for different transactions.

I also have more addresses, but I found the highest challenge is not linking my adresses together when spending. Doable, but it needs additional effort.

What I do is also pretty much it. I have several adresses in my Mycellium wallet, and for each one I have a proper tag that helps me readily identify where those transactions are coming from.

I have 2 wallets, i actually had one on xapo but just because some websites doesnt support xapo wallet so i had to make another on blockchain.info, so now i have two.

I have quite a few bitcon address. I use one for each transaction. I will not use the address for long time to have privacy.

i used to have around 5 to 8 different bitcoin addresses as cold wallet, but i have sent all the coins in these addresses to just 3 wallets just to make it easy to manage. and for sending and receiving transactions i nowadays use a different bitcoin address every time. if you have a lot wallets it takes quite a bit of your time to make different backups of all the addresses.

Several, some have only a little bit.  I like that some wallets give you a new address everytime for new transactions.  Just feels better to not have everything in one place.

I have few addresses in different wallet types. I always prefer to have more wallets than sticking with a single wallet. I believe this is minimizing my risk even with cold storage. I do have exact address count.

I have around 6-7 addresses in blockchain.info, The reason of it being more than one is nothing specific, It's easy and simple to generate a new address and wanted a bigger variety IMO.

I have around 5 or so offline and use only 3 active addresses across different devices. This is of course not including any auto generated change addresses.

I have 4 wallets, 2 online wallets for daily use and 2 cold wallets for storing my bitcoins.

Except it doesn't include donation addresses which usually are re-used, unlike invoice numbers.

Most people btw have at least 50 addresses - clients generate them ahead of time, you just don't see them until you need them.

For example, when you ask bitcoin core to make a new payment address for you, the one it gives you it made some time ago and the one it makes you don't see, just added to the cue.

This is done so that when you back your wallet, it backs up addresses you haven't used yet.

I use more than one bitcoin address, because its more secure so you cannot get hacked.
Many people are doing I also have multiple steps to login in my wallets, so it cannot get hacked easy.

i don't know how much bitcoin address i have used, in this moment i have about 5 or six wallet whit btc in.