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Topic
Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Address reuse (Bitcoin Core)
by
Forsyth Jones
on 21/08/2024, 19:48:34 UTC
Wallets like Bitcoin Core practically force the user to use new addresses every time the receive button is pressed by the user, but as others have said, using new addresses for each receive is a matter of privacy, you are not necessarily vulnerable to changing signatures to exfiltrate your private key.

I think they should change the UI/UX of the receive tab in Bitcoin Core, I think they should never have changed the design of the tab, just compare how much more practical it was to receive to a new address or reuse an old one in the old UI, the old addresses were listed in the same tab, we could generate a new QR code from any address (with a new address or reused).



Electrum unfortunately followed the same path, adding the name "invoices" for on-chain receiving with invoices with expiration dates. Unfortunately, this only causes more confusion than it helps. For example, newbies mistakenly think that addresses created by invoices with expiration dates will be canceled or invalid.