<p>I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I know this is not (easily?) possible. The addresses used for sending/receiving payments are created using your initial private key (THe 20 word long seed) in a <strong>deterministic</strong> way. When creating a new wallet with this pivate key, the same addresses are generated. </p>

<p>It is not possible to guess your private key having one or more of your addresses. I think it's also not possible to guess which private key has generated the addresses.</p>

<p>You should use an address only for one transaction.</p>

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<p>I have created a wallet using Electrum. Electrum creates 20 receiving addresses. My question is can these be linked or traced back to each other?</p>

<p>I want to understand if I have create another wallet if I want more receiving addresses apart from 20.</p>

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Can one receiving address from my Wallet be linked to another from the same Wallet?
feral_fenrir
# Can one receiving address from my Wallet be linked to another from the same Wallet?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-24)

I have created a wallet using Electrum. Electrum creates 20 receiving addresses. My question is can these be linked or traced back to each other?

I want to understand if I have create another wallet if I want more receiving addresses apart from 20.

**Tags:** address, electrum, receiving

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Possible duplicate of http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7447/is-it-possible-to-figure-out-whether-two-addresses-are-in-the-same-wallet  
> **username_1**: Related: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/52/how-anonymous-are-bitcoin-transactions  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-04-18. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I know this is not (easily?) possible. The addresses used for sending/receiving payments are created using your initial private key (THe 20 word long seed) in a **deterministic** way. When creating a new wallet with this pivate key, the same addresses are generated.

It is not possible to guess your private key having one or more of your addresses. I think it's also not possible to guess which private key has generated the addresses.

You should use an address only for one transaction.


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