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Still having difficulty converting Shadow to SDC. The buttons in the wallet are ambiguous and there is no clear procedure; also unclear is the relationship between stealth and open addresses. That's something that really needs to be a priority for the secrecy aspect of the coin to be useful- we need a wallet upgrade with the SDC-Shadow addressed.

When converting Shadow to SDC this is what I do at the moment. Because there are few Shadow in the network (less than 1%) the amount of available inputs/outputs is very small compared to what it will be soon. Therefor I inspect the Chain Data section of the wallet and pick an available System I/O value close to the amount I wish to convert.

Say you have 552.3245 Shadow you wanted to convert to SDC, then I would send 550. This would go through no problem. As I say we wont have to think about this as the amount of Shadow increases.

Now before sending 550 i click the button "suggest ring size". this will change the ring size value automatically and it should now send without a problem.

Additionally my feeling is you should always leave some dust Shadow amounts even if u wanna convert all to SDC and cash out. These dust amounts (e.g. 0.5423) will improve the systems overall anon by confusing SDC>Shadow>SDC even more (in my opinion anyway).

A tutorial would be useful and Im sure members of this community could produce some good ones

Reminder: Convert more SDC to Shadow.
Reminder: Its all about Shadow to Shadow.

You send what, to where? My instinct would be to set the "Shadow to SDC" option, send Shadow from my stealth address to my main address in my wallet. The coins should reappear as SDC at my public SDC address.

But even with very simple transactions, like 1 Shadow, it tells me there are insufficient outputs when asked to suggest a ring size. That doesn't make sense. I'd like to see the Shadow-SDC conversion happen reliably a few times (not concerned about the dust) before leaving any more Shadow on the system.

OK.

A. You already created a stealth addy. You sent SDC to it with a "SDC to Shadow" send. You now have Shadow and SDC in your wallet.

B. You wish to convert some Shadow back to SDC.

SO

SHADOW TO SDC

1. Go to the Send section of ur wallet and select "Shadow to SDC" as the send type

2. Paste the stealth addy of the recipient (if u r the recipient then paste ur own stealth addy). this part is counter-intuitive but YES you enter a stealth addy to create SDC!

3. Enter a send amount of 100 (for example) If u don't have 100 try 10, if u don't have 10 try 1. If necessary refer to the Chain Data section of your wallet to determine available input/output amounts (this will not be necessary as the Shadow network grows)

4. Click "Suggest Ring Size"

5. Click "Send"

6. You will receive the SDC in a new SDC addy generated in ur wallet on the fly (not ur old SDC addy).

IMPORTANT: This means you must BACKUP ur wallet again! Alternatively you could quickly send them to an SDC addy u do have backed up but I personally like the idea of leaving them in the new addy, rather than sending to an older SDC addy u may have linked with exchanges/merchants etc

Notes:

- If the stealth addy u paste in is highlighted red there is a prob with it. check there is'nt a space in the addy (this can happen sometimes when copy/pasting from the web)
- You might notice some unknown addys in ur Receive section after you make a Shadow>SDC. These appear as a result of the send and will disappear after the wallet is restarted. Your new SDC addy will of course remain.
- If it doesn't work restart ur wallet and try it again

Hope this helps

OK, so every time I convert Shadow to SDC I create a new SDC address. Is this a new private key?

It seems like over time I will have hundreds of keys and stealth/public addresses in the wallet. The wallet also doesn't seem to be able to tell me what coins are associated with what address.