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<p><strong>If I create a new receive address in the hot wallet.dat and send the Bisq balance to it, is this identical privacy-wise as it would be for me to create a new wallet.dat and send the balance to it instead?</strong></p>
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<p>The privacy implications should be the same. By themselves, addresses don't tell you anything. It is the way you <em>use</em> those addresses that has privacy implications and that applies equally in the two cases you describe.</p>
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<p><strong>is there some sort of &quot;extra tell&quot; which reveals that I just sent the money back to my own wallet</strong></p>
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<p>Not in the way you mean.</p>
<p>Obviously if you, for example, later include some UTXO's from the new address with some UTXO's from an old address in a single transaction, observers may be able to make some inferences. There may be a higher probability of you unintentionally doing this if all the UTXOs are in one wallet.</p>

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RedGrittyBrick
<p>I have a &quot;hot&quot; <code>wallet.dat</code> with no password, with a small amount of satoshis.</p>
<p>Recently, I transferred them all over to my Bisq wallet temporarily to make trades. So the hot wallet.dat has 0 BTC in it currently.</p>
<p>If I create a new receive address in the hot wallet.dat and send the Bisq balance to it, is this identical privacy-wise as it would be for me to create a new wallet.dat and send the balance to it instead?</p>
<p>To everyone else in the world, will this look identical, or is there some sort of &quot;extra tell&quot; which reveals that I just sent the money back to my own wallet rather than &quot;somebody else's&quot;?</p>

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2022-05-23T12:43:57.253Z
Both approaches are safe enough and both are menaced by address reuse.
Mercedes
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@Mercedes Safe enough? But are they the same? And what do you mean by the last part?
Binyamin
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2022-05-23T18:48:17.280Z
You can read about the dangers in address reuse, and then judge whether multiple wallets are worth to your Bitcoin use or not.
Mercedes
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Is there any privacy issue in doing this hard-to-summarize thing with Bitcoin Core?
Binyamin
# Is there any privacy issue in doing this hard-to-summarize thing with Bitcoin Core?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-05-23)

I have a "hot" `wallet.dat` with no password, with a small amount of satoshis.

Recently, I transferred them all over to my Bisq wallet temporarily to make trades. So the hot wallet.dat has 0 BTC in it currently.

If I create a new receive address in the hot wallet.dat and send the Bisq balance to it, is this identical privacy-wise as it would be for me to create a new wallet.dat and send the balance to it instead?

To everyone else in the world, will this look identical, or is there some sort of "extra tell" which reveals that I just sent the money back to my own wallet rather than "somebody else's"?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, security, privacy, bisq

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Both approaches are safe enough and both are menaced by address reuse.  
> **username_0**: @username_1 Safe enough? But are they the same? And what do you mean by the last part?  
> **username_1**: You can read about the dangers in address reuse, and then judge whether multiple wallets are worth to your Bitcoin use or not.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2022-05-23. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

> **If I create a new receive address in the hot wallet.dat and send the Bisq balance to it, is this identical privacy-wise as it would be for me to create a new wallet.dat and send the balance to it instead?**

The privacy implications should be the same. By themselves, addresses don't tell you anything. It is the way you *use* those addresses that has privacy implications and that applies equally in the two cases you describe.

> **is there some sort of "extra tell" which reveals that I just sent the money back to my own wallet**

Not in the way you mean.

Obviously if you, for example, later include some UTXO's from the new address with some UTXO's from an old address in a single transaction, observers may be able to make some inferences. There may be a higher probability of you unintentionally doing this if all the UTXOs are in one wallet.


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