Quote from: rocketron on December 04, 2013, 03:01:49 PM

hi everyone,

just wondering is it wise to use a wallet that the public key is visable on the block chain?

I have been using the same wallet for receiving/sending bitcoins and also to store my bitcoins, I do however have mywallet encrypted,

should i be moving my bitcoins to a new wallet everytime i send a bitcoin out of it? from what I gather the public key is only shown in the block explorer when you send anything out of your wallet, but my question is with the public key now visable on the block explorer, does that leave my wallet open for any sort of attacks etc, or is it still secured.

would seem to me that it would be a right pain to have to clear out my wallet to a new one everytime i send anything out of it.

cheers

Public keys do not have to be hidden at all. That is why they are called 'public.' As long as the account's keypair is generated and stored in a secure way, it is not risky at all to leave your public key out in the open. Anyway, any address with bitcoins in it is already public (visible in the blockchain) regardless of whether any coins have been sent from it yet or not.