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Re: Multiple public adresses for one private key?
by
DannyHamilton
on 14/04/2014, 18:41:29 UTC
So it generates 100 priv+pub key pairs at the time of installation but does not show them up.

Correct.

Once I click on generating new addresses, it picks one of those and show it to me?

Correct.  It also uses one of those addresses every time you send a transaction (for the change from the transaction).

If I go beyond 100, it generates new priv+pub key everytime?

Is that how it works?

Not quite.

Each time it takes a priv+pub key from the pre-generated pool, it generates a new one to add to the queue.  That way there continues to be a pool of 100 available.

Because of this, you can create a backup at any time, and as long as you haven't used up more than 100 addresses since the backup, you can recover your entire wallet balance from the backup.