proposal: stop address inflation

[scaleToTheFuture]

Description

everytime i click the receive tab, a new address is generated. On the one hand, this increases privacy, which is good. On the other hand, after a short period of time testing and clicking through the application, i already have way >100 addresses in wallet, while only 1 was really used, which blows up sync work and wallet itsself.

Proposal

Use a "generate new address" button, or auto-generate a new one as soon as last address was used on-chain in any way.

[thejourneydude]

@scaleToTheFuture Welcome to Github and the Lightning App project! 😄

For future reference, pull requests are for when you want to submit new code to this repository. Issues on the other hand are meant for submitting discovered bugs, improvement proposals, etc. In your case, it looks like you're submitting an improvement proposal so it's best to keep this inside the Issues section of Github.

Now, if you have a code solution to this proposal, you're more than welcome to create a pull request and a maintainer will review your code. If the code is approved, it will be merged into the master branch.

Does that clear things up?

[scaleToTheFuture]

yeah, thank you very much!

[diofeher]

Maintainers, what do you think is the best direction to go here?

I'm willing to tackle that if I have more understanding of the problem. Is it possible to check if the address is used - can check if transactions happened on it? If so, I think the steps are:

1 - When you click on receive tab, it should check if the address is used or not.
1.1 - If it's used, generate a new one;
1.2 - If it's not, use the last one generated;

What do you think?

[halseth]

@diofeher That sounds like a good strategy! It think that's what is used by most wallets :)

[scaleToTheFuture]

@diofeher perfect solution, 100% like you described it