confirmed parent tranaction, but electrum used same address

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I send a btc that its parent transaction was confirmed, but still electrum used the address used for receiving that fund, why? (there was some sending out unconfirmed transactions in my wallet but obviously those are irrelevant)

East Activist

Posted 2017-04-06T16:53:27.043

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Did you use the Child Pays For Parent feature?Murch 2017-04-06T20:20:45.770

As I said all incoming transactions were confirmed the reason I mention unconfirmed outgoing transactions was because of though may be electrum have a bug that still use old address when unconfirmed transactions is in the wallet even if those are irrelevant and outgoing (not incoming)East Activist 2017-04-07T13:24:26.580

I don't comprehend your question and comment. Could you please fix the grammar and be more explicit about which address was used for what?Murch 2017-04-07T13:29:04.973

Now, I waited to all transactions be confirmed but again it still uses same address that received Bitcoin for sending it.East Activist 2017-04-09T19:39:25.473

can you perhaps add screenshots that show the addresses or something? I don't understand what your problem is.Murch 2017-04-09T22:35:15.267

http://i64.tinypic.com/16j58nm.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/20b0r4z.png the "1LZbNBHnuqy..." is electrum address as you can see both send and receive is done from same addressEast Activist 2017-04-13T00:34:31.063

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There really isn't such a thing as a "sending address" in the most literal sense.

What happens is this: a transaction defines one or several recipients and what amount of bitcoins they each get. The recipients are specified through the use of the address, in this case obviously your address as you received the first payment. Now, when you spend the coins that you received in the first payment, this transaction output must be referenced to define which coins you're spending. To prove that you're allowed to spend them, you have to sign the transaction using the private key corresponding to the address that they were sent to in the first place. So, in the second transaction, everyone knows which address previously received the coins, so block explorer list this previous address as a "sending address". If you spend several coins, you would then obviously also see several "sending addresses".

Murch

Posted 2017-04-06T16:53:27.043

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So what is "use change addresses" option do? the "1LZbNBHnuqyczgyU2" address is directly the address I was wanting to send BTC to it from electrumEast Activist 2017-04-13T17:28:05.067

And the recipient can see electrum address (sender address)East Activist 2017-04-14T13:06:56.273