Feature request: Get new receive address

kyokan / bob-wallet

Bob Wallet is a GUI for DNS Record Management and Name Auctions on Handshake. It includes an integrated full node: hsd

https://www.bobwallet.io/

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Feature request: Get new receive address #541

Open Falci opened 2 years ago

Falci commented 2 years ago

Hey!

I'd like to have a button in the Receive page so I can generate a new receive address, even if the previous wasn't used yet.

Rationale: I want to transfer several domains from a popular handshake service provider but for privacy reasons I'd like to have each of them transfered to a different address. Since this service provider is slow to act, I don't want to wait until they initiate the first transfer (which would make Bob generate a new address).

pinheadmz commented 2 years ago

The only problem with this is the possibility to mess up future wallet recoveries by making too big a gap in the bip44 chain. Advanced users can already get new addresses using CLI with bob: https://hsd-dev.org/api-docs/?shell--cli#generate-receiving-address

Falci commented 2 years ago

My use case is risk free, since the address will be used, just by a lazy party

pinheadmz commented 2 years ago

yeah i have no problem with this, really. I use Wasabi wallet for BTC and it will give me as many new addresses as I want. Maybe there could simply be a 🔁 icon next to the copy button, and it will derive the next address on every click (and automatically copy it to clipboard!)

rithvikvibhu commented 2 years ago

How about this:

New button that generates new address
BUT it only works 200 times (or whatever the default lookahead value is)
If someone really needs more than 200, the API is always an option.

brandondees commented 2 years ago

Bump. I'd suggest limiting it to the lookahead (or less, even) by default, or just not exposing the feature in the main UI by default, but provide a "yes i know what i'm doing and accept the risks" setting to unlock it. I like the idea of automatically copying to clipboard, especially if there's an option to generate N addresses at a time (unix-friendly newline separated values).