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[kwukduck]

+9000

 I really wonder why this hasn't been adopted by the main client yet, anonymity is one of bitcoin's key aspects, yet every transaction potentially leaks a lot of addresses you don't wish to be associated with.

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[old_engineer]

+1 - it's not just for anonymity, it's also a look under the hood at addresses, which helps when explaining how bitcoin works.

[Red Emerald]

Watching this.

This should really be made into a pull request

[Red Emerald]

Watching this.

This should really be made into a pull request

from my last reply on this thread

Here is the pull request, +1 it if you guys want to see this patch get into core:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/415

Dunno how I missed that. Awesome.

Any help needed with testing? From reading the comments, it looks like that is all the pull request needs.

[bccasino]

fantastic, ver 0.5.1 works great!

Thank you very much, this should really be part of the default client feature 

[K1773R]

thanks alot

EDIT: you forgot to put bitcoind in the archive
compiling on my own then

[btc_artist]

+1 - it's not just for anonymity, it's also a look under the hood at addresses, which helps when explaining how bitcoin works.

This is an important aspect of it.

[0ni0ns]

I sometimes get a message saying error creating transaction when I want to empty an address and don't manually include the fee. This should probably be changed to the exceeds balance when fee is included message instead.

[BrightAnarchist]

Okay... what am I doing wrong? I had Bitcoin 0.5.2 installed, and I copied the bitcoin-qt.exe from the patch over the original exe. I re-ran it, and verified it says version 0.5.1 now, but I don't see anything for "send from address".

Any ideas? Thanks!

used:

http://mtgoxlive.com/downloads/bitcoin-v0.5.1+coderrr-win32.zip

[BrightAnarchist]

Thanks!

Great patch btw, it should be integrated into the main branch

[kjj]

When you spend bitcoins, you redeem transactions that were previously sent to you.  To redeem a transaction, you have to redeem the whole transaction.  So, the client looks through the database and finds a set of available transactions that add up to more than your spend attempt.  It then creates a new transaction that redeems all of the selected subset and transfers the balance to the destination address.  Unless the spend amount happens somehow to be exactly the total of the redeemed transactions, there will be change due.  This change is sent to a new address pulled from your wallet's spare key pool.

[Hawkix]

Can I "empty" several of my addresses to single, already existing, MY OWN address?

I am getting "Error: Transaction creation failed".

Can it be "not enough money on all specified addresses to take a required fee from it" problem?

[BrightAnarchist]

Can I "empty" several of my addresses to single, already existing, MY OWN address?

I am getting "Error: Transaction creation failed".

Can it be "not enough money on all specified addresses to take a required fee from it" problem?

I also have the same issue.

[Hawkix]

Can I "empty" several of my addresses to single, already existing, MY OWN address?

I am getting "Error: Transaction creation failed".

Can it be "not enough money on all specified addresses to take a required fee from it" problem?

yes, most likely the tx needs the 0.0005 fee, so transfer the total amount minus that fee and it should be fine

How about to show the "Fee needed" dialog in such a case instead of failing with an error?

[BrightAnarchist]

Question -- how do I specify multiple source addresses for sending BTC?

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Question -- how do I specify multiple source addresses for sending BTC?

(even though it's probably CTRL-click, for the sake of completeness...)

Settings - options - display
check that Display advanced anonymity features is ticked
click OK

There should be a new tab between address book and export




Go to Send coins and look at the bottom where it says send from:



Click anonymity



click the address you want to send from, and it will highlight in blue.
CTRL-click to add more addresses.

go to Send coins, at the bottom you will see the selected address(es). You can delete or add addresses directly here, each address separated with a ; (semi-colon)



if there is insufficient funds in the selected addresses it will error and you will need to reduce the amount or  use another tab.

CTRL-clicking all addresses is equivalent to having none selected. ie the client will use up to all of the addresses that contain balances to calculate.

Don't forget that there is a tx fee for EACH address used, not one combined fee.

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[mcorlett]

Can we have this rebased against 0.6?

Thanks.

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Can we have this rebased against 0.6?

Thanks.

Would be nice but isn't 0.6 still RC?

Also would like the ability to see tx fees as either a separate transaction linked to the send, or as a separate column.
something the can be done through the options |display.


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[BrightAnarchist]

Question -- how do I specify multiple source addresses for sending BTC?

(even though it's probably CTRL-click, for the sake of completeness...)

Settings - options - display
check that Display advanced anonymity features is ticked
click OK

There should be a new tab between address book and export




Go to Send coins and look at the bottom where it says send from:



Click anonymity



click the address you want to send from, and it will highlight in blue.
CTRL-click to add more addresses.

go to Send coins, at the bottom you will see the selected address(es). You can delete or add addresses directly here, each address separated with a ; (semi-colon)



if there is insufficient funds in the selected addresses it will error and you will need to reduce the amount or  use another tab.

CTRL-clicking all addresses is equivalent to having none selected. ie the client will use up to all of the addresses that contain balances to calculate.

Don't forget that there is a tx fee for EACH address used, not one combined fee.

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Awesome! Thanks.

[btc_artist]

Two questions--

1. On the screen where you choose the input transactions, could you display the "age" as well, so that you can easily choose older ones to avoid paying a tx fee?

2. Is this patch under any kind of consideration for inclusion in the mainline client?