<p>Many wallets that are designed to facilitate an easy user-experience will simply display one receiving address at a time. Once that address receives funds, a new address will be displayed. This helps adhere to the best-practice of only using an address once, which is very important for privacy.</p>

<p>With that in mind, if you're just copying the receive address as a means of looking up your funds on a block explorer, then it is expected that you'll be shown an address with zero balance. To view your addresses with a balance, you'll need to look up the receiving addresses of your past transactions (and, the change addresses of those transactions, if you've sent any BTC out). </p>

<p>Note: when you look up addresses on a block explorer, you are giving information to that service: for whatever reason, you are interested in that address. This can be a privacy concern, as the block explorer service can keep logs of devices/ips that query the service for specific addresses. </p>

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chytrik
<p>Although I can see all transactions in my "wallet activity" I pasted my wallet address into Blockchain Explorer expecting to see the history of transactions in that wallet. It directs to a page that shows no transactions....what am I missing and how can I see this info on the Blockchain?</p>

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2019-12-18T15:10:44.110Z
a wallet usually holds several addresses (HD wallets). maybe you should try putting the ones created before? Or try a different explorer (blockchair, blockstream.info, smartbit, blockcypher, etc). Give us the txIDs of the transactions you are talking about if you have them
Pedro
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# BTC Blockchain WALLET ACTIVITY

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-18)

Although I can see all transactions in my "wallet activity" I pasted my wallet address into Blockchain Explorer expecting to see the history of transactions in that wallet. It directs to a page that shows no transactions....what am I missing and how can I see this info on the Blockchain?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: a wallet usually holds several addresses (HD wallets). maybe you should try putting the ones created before? Or try a different explorer (blockchair, blockstream.info, smartbit, blockcypher, etc). Give us the txIDs of the transactions you are talking about if you have them  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-12-20. Score: 1

Many wallets that are designed to facilitate an easy user-experience will simply display one receiving address at a time. Once that address receives funds, a new address will be displayed. This helps adhere to the best-practice of only using an address once, which is very important for privacy.

With that in mind, if you're just copying the receive address as a means of looking up your funds on a block explorer, then it is expected that you'll be shown an address with zero balance. To view your addresses with a balance, you'll need to look up the receiving addresses of your past transactions (and, the change addresses of those transactions, if you've sent any BTC out).

Note: when you look up addresses on a block explorer, you are giving information to that service: for whatever reason, you are interested in that address. This can be a privacy concern, as the block explorer service can keep logs of devices/ips that query the service for specific addresses.


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