Funds sent to previous address

[gxmonitor]

Hello,

  I am using desktop electrum wallet. I was using FTC address for doing transactions. Lately I didn't notice that my FTC receiving address is automatically changed. Someone has sent funds to my previous receiving address.

Have to solve this ?

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[nc50lc]

That shouldn't be a problem, technically. But regarding FTC, that might cause an issue.

On Electrum:
Any old addresses were stored (more accurately: pre-generated) in your wallet and the funds should be received without any problem as long as the transaction went through.
You can also check all of the available addresses by showing the address tab: 'View->Address Tab'.

[bob123]

A wallet (in this case: electrum) is a software to mange your private-/public- keys.

For privacy reasons, electrum does create a new address for each transaction you receive.
Each private-/public- keypair is saved inside of your wallet file and can always be derived using your seed (which you have hopefully backed up properly).

The addresses do not have an expiration date. You can receive funds as often / as much as you want to that single address.
The only reason for multiple addresses is, as mentioned, for privacy reasons. Different addresses inside your wallet can't be linked together (at least not until you decide to create a transaction using BOTH UTXO's as input).


This is not an issue and does not need to be solved.


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[bargain]

Go to the console and type

Code:

ismine(address)

With address being the address you previoulsy used, and the console returns true then you have your coins and they are safe.