A fresh Bitcoin address for every swap, the free anonymity habit
Reusing an address quietly links your whole history together. Here is what it gives away, and how your wallet already fixes it.
Every Bitcoin transaction stays public forever. Use one address for everything and anyone who learns it once can see your full balance and every payment you ever sent or received. It is like taping your bank statement to a wall because you once shared your account number.
What reuse gives away
- Your total balance at that address.
- Every amount that ever came in, and when.
- Links between payments that would otherwise look unrelated.
Your wallet already does the work
Modern wallets are hierarchical deterministic wallets. A long name for a simple idea. From one seed phrase they can produce an endless list of addresses, and they show a new one every time you press Receive. All of them are yours, and all of them come back from the same backup.
So the habit is simple. Press Receive, use the new address, done.
Refund addresses too
When you swap Bitcoin on SwapAnonymously you give a refund address in case the swap cannot finish. Make that a fresh address as well, not the one you just sent from. That way a refund never ties your history back together.
Change outputs
When you spend, the leftover usually goes back to a new change address your wallet creates. That is normal and good for anonymity. Some wallets also let you choose which coins to spend, called coin control. If your coins come from different sources, keeping them apart stops them being linked in one transaction. Ready? Try Bitcoin to Monero.
Quick answers
Is it safe to have lots of addresses?
Yes. Modern wallets make all of them from one seed phrase. Back up the seed once and every address is covered.
Which address type should I use?
Native SegWit addresses starting with bc1q are the most widely supported and cheap to spend. Taproot addresses starting with bc1p are newer and fine wherever they are accepted.
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