Is there any way to remove bitcoin addresses?
2010 Apr 8
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Is there any way to remove bitcoin addresses? @ Satoshi Nakamoto
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SheriffWoodyj
removing bitcoin addresses
April 08, 2010, 02:56:25 PM
Is there any way to remove bitcoin addresses that you have generated
for yourself? What about if you have received payments to those
addresses? Are they needed to show ownership for the coins after they
have been transferred?
sirius
April 10, 2010, 06:12:31 AM
A question to Satoshi: have you tested the program with thousands of
own addresses in the wallet? If I make a new address for each automated
transaction, it's going to be a big amount. Or maybe I could reuse the
addresses, given a big enough pool.
Satoshi Nakamoto
May 16, 2010, 11:34:40 PMj
SheriffWoody:
Bitcoin addresses you generate are kept forever. A bitcoin address must
be kept to show ownership of anything sent to it. If you were able to
delete a bitcoin address and someone sent to it, the money would be
lost. They're only about 500 bytes.
sirius-m:
Thousands of own addresses should not be any problem at all. If you've
generated 50000 BTC, then you already have 1000 own addresses, one for
each 50 generated. Those are hidden, they're not shown in the UI.
It would be a good idea to add a little code that keeps giving the
same address to the same IP. Here's what I did in C++ to keep giving
the same key (aka bitcoin address) until they use it:
// Keep giving the same key to the same ip until they use it
if (!mapReuseKey.count(pfrom->addr.ip))
mapReuseKey[pfrom->addr.ip] = GenerateNewKey();
...sends the key mapReuseKey[pfrom->addr.ip]
...later...
// Received something with this key
mapReuseKey.erase(pfrom->addr.ip);
If it's not convenient to know when you've received, just clear the
cached keys every 20 minutes.
I want to add a parameter to getnewaddress for number of days to
expire if nothing is received with the address.
Is there any way to remove bitcoin addresses?
2010 Apr 8 See all postsSatoshi Nakamoto
satoshinakamotonetwork@proton.me
https://satoshinakamoto.network
Is there any way to remove bitcoin addresses that you have generated for yourself? What about if you have received payments to those addresses? Are they needed to show ownership for the coins after they have been transferred?
A question to Satoshi: have you tested the program with thousands of own addresses in the wallet? If I make a new address for each automated transaction, it's going to be a big amount. Or maybe I could reuse the addresses, given a big enough pool.
SheriffWoody:
Bitcoin addresses you generate are kept forever. A bitcoin address must be kept to show ownership of anything sent to it. If you were able to delete a bitcoin address and someone sent to it, the money would be lost. They're only about 500 bytes.
sirius-m:
Thousands of own addresses should not be any problem at all. If you've generated 50000 BTC, then you already have 1000 own addresses, one for each 50 generated. Those are hidden, they're not shown in the UI.
It would be a good idea to add a little code that keeps giving the same address to the same IP. Here's what I did in C++ to keep giving the same key (aka bitcoin address) until they use it:
...sends the key mapReuseKey[pfrom->addr.ip]
...later...
If it's not convenient to know when you've received, just clear the cached keys every 20 minutes.
I want to add a parameter to getnewaddress for number of days to expire if nothing is received with the address.