<p>Yes you can. Although it is discouraged.</p>

<p>Place the following in your bitcoin.conf file</p>

<p>changeaddress=yournewchangeaddress</p>

<p>Unless you have a real need to keep the address count in your wallet low than you shouldnt use this as it opens up security risks and destroys anonymity.</p>

<p>You should be using a new address for every transaction you make. </p>

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<p>Is it possible to enable default change address on my bitcoin-qt (aka <em>bitcoin-core</em>) client?</p>

<p>I'm using a <a href="http://bitgo.com" rel="nofollow">webservice</a> that monitors my balance (based on public keys) and whenever I send a transaction my balance goes to 0.0000 because my whole funds end up in a random change address.</p>

<p>I know there is a coincontrol option to specify a change address, but sometimes I forget to enter an address. Is there any way to configure the client to use a default change address? Where all changes end up?</p>

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Is it possible to specify a default change address?
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# Is it possible to specify a default change address?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-10-19)

Is it possible to enable default change address on my bitcoin-qt (aka *bitcoin-core*) client?

I'm using a [webservice](http://bitgo.com) that monitors my balance (based on public keys) and whenever I send a transaction my balance goes to 0.0000 because my whole funds end up in a random change address.

I know there is a coincontrol option to specify a change address, but sometimes I forget to enter an address. Is there any way to configure the client to use a default change address? Where all changes end up?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, address, change, bitcoin.conf, bitcoin-qt-setup


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-11-25. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Yes you can. Although it is discouraged.

Place the following in your bitcoin.conf file

changeaddress=yournewchangeaddress

Unless you have a real need to keep the address count in your wallet low than you shouldnt use this as it opens up security risks and destroys anonymity.

You should be using a new address for every transaction you make.


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