How can I generate thousands of receiving addresses from a Bitcoin wallet?

I want to generate thousands of receiving addresses without sending any BTC to another wallet. Is it possible and how?

user8481790

Posted 2019-10-23T19:10:37.430

Reputation: 13

Using what client software? – Nate Eldredge – 2019-10-23T22:29:06.973

Answers

Yes, once you have an HD wallet which is free you can generate an unlimited amount of receiving addresses.

There is lots of services offering HD wallet, hardware, mobile or desktop, electrum is a common one, you just have to download and install it, choose and save your secret phrase then you can begin generating your addresses from your seed: https://electrum.org/#download

Saxtheowl

Posted 2019-10-23T19:10:37.430

Reputation: 1 148

I got about 120 receiving addresses from my Electrum wallet. How can I generate more? – user8481790 – 2019-10-23T19:40:02.840

Addresses will keep being generated as you go, but if you want to force it take a look at this site https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1741383.0 I see a comment "If you want more than 20 addresses showing in your wallet then open the "console" tab and type the commands below into it. Press your enter key after writing each line.

wallet.storage.put('gap_limit', 50) wallet.storage.write()" So I suggest putting 1000 instead of 50 there

– Saxtheowl – 2019-10-23T19:43:55.820

Is possible generate it also with the Bitcoin core – vincenzopalazzo – 2019-10-24T08:56:39.160

Yes, it is a HD wallet by default since bitcoin-core 13.0, here is how: with bitcoin-qt go to "Receive" then clic on "Request payment" it will generate a new addresses each time. – Saxtheowl – 2019-10-24T12:55:52.027

or with bitcoin-cli just use getnewaddress I suggest you go to https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/22840/95422 to learn more about bitcoin

– Saxtheowl – 2019-10-24T13:18:54.377

Yes, you can generate as many numbers of addresses. Bitcoinjs Library or Iancoleman Resource may be helpful.

Cunlay

Posted 2019-10-23T19:10:37.430

Reputation: 1

Well, the simplest method if you're okay generating a new wallet is using the Bulk Wallet tab on bitaddress.org. You generate a wallet, then use the Bulk Wallet tab to generate as many address/key pairs as you want.

Philip Trauring

Posted 2019-10-23T19:10:37.430

Reputation: 1

This is a terrible idea - you should never use a random third party system to generate keys, especially an online one. – Raghav Sood – 2019-10-26T04:48:11.027

You can download the code from Github (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org), check the code, and run it locally on a computer without an Internet connection.

– Philip Trauring – 2019-11-10T12:01:45.623