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Board Bitcoin Discussion
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Re: How to search wallet balance?
by
sheenshane
on 16/12/2022, 23:24:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by DdmrDdmr (2) ,pooya87 (2)
Thank you that was helpful. Instead of going to "Receive" and copying that address, I went to a past transaction and pulled that address like you said. A balance DOES show up now but it's around half the balance in my wallet. Very confused.
Because this is how it works.
It will generate a new Bitcoin address per transaction successfully made.  So possible, you've copied a newly generated address that doesn't have transactions.  This features the same on the Electrum software wallet which is really safe if you'll change your Bitcoin address per transaction.  It will mislead possible scammers who will track your transaction.

You need to learn more about how Bitcoin works especially Bitcoin wallets.