Quote from: john_egbert on Today at 12:48:30 PM

So there would be two address to use? I though the old one (the one being changed) would be not usable afterward..

Yes, old wallet addresses can still be used. For example, I have two wallet addresses on my profile. If you look them up, you will notice they have received a couple transactions both during my time on this forum. I can spend from it as many times as I want. The only reason your old address is 'changed' is because it is a good practice for your privacy.

My privacy situation is really bad. I am PrivacyG, I shared a set of two addresses and I received a ton of transactions to them. They are all linked to one address, meaning they are all mine with zero doubts and everybody knows it.

The reason I do not care is because it would be really hard to change the address linked to my forum account every time I had to receive a payment. It would not only be significantly more complicated but in my opinion useless. I could change my address 100 times, it will still show up particularly under the 'PrivacyG' username.

But privately, I am using new addresses every time. This is because things are harder to supervise that way by a third party. Although there are now Blockchain Analysis companies doing particularly this and trying to put together all our transactions to link them to identities, it is still a better practice than re using the same address over and over again. It is a complicated subject and I could write an entire book about it, but to shorten the length of the story this is simply a very good privacy practice.