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I just started using Electrum noticing there are quite a few Public-Private key combinations(addresses) in the wallet. Every time I do a 'receive' transaction, Electrum uses a new Public key. This has resulted in my funds being spread across multiple addresses (each of these pairs is a wallet, as per my understanding).

Similar Issue: No sign of my private keys in Electrum wallet ... where do I find them?

Download Link: https://electrum.org/ (Not Malicious)

I'm very confused how would I send my funds now. This is not something I would like the wallet program to do for me. I guess it creates this new recieve address for privacy but now how does one get funds out to spend?

I am new to crypto. Can someone please explain me.

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caliGeek
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The original answer was written when my impression was that you were asking why Bitcoin wallets use new addresses on each new payment process. At this point, you have described so many strange behaviors that my impression is that you are running malware instead of Electrum. Some red flags are:

  • Wallets do not move funds without a user interaction.
  • Your wallet informs you that the output address is "Not known, this is a non-wallet txid".

I would suggest that you attempt moving your funds to a new wallet controlled by a different device. If you succeed, you’re good and I’m misunderstanding the situation, but it seems to me that your funds have been stolen.

Murch
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  • I’m not able to understand how to use electrum to send funds when this kind of situation happens. Can you please guide me? – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 01:04
  • This kind of situation is the normal situation. Just click the "Send" tab at the top of the screen - it will ask for the receiver's address and amount to be sent. – RedGrittyBrick Nov 09 '23 at 08:45
  • How can you send given the address electrum sent to is not the original address I got funds on – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 14:46
  • @caliGeek: I’m having a hard time telling whether you are a) talking about change outputs, b) the wallet creating fresh receive addresses after each transaction, or c) your funds were immediately swept from your wallet right after you received them. Could you perhaps elaborate your description or show us a screenshot (feel free to cover private information such as exact amounts, anything past the first ~7 characters of an address, txids, etc.). – Murch Nov 09 '23 at 18:02
  • https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/596802d0b3f99149b6c7b4250ce52894938d252aa3ad4fdbf125336bb0c80553

    I got the deposits and then a new UTXO gets created at a new address. Not happy with electrum behavior here

     – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 19:36
  • Which of these addresses are yours? Just the two on the left or all three? – Murch Nov 09 '23 at 19:51
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    If you didn't send 3.73118785 BTC to bc1qa4hrzegkrrq5fmyelma2y3lcs2papk5ee7suns it means someone else probably has - maybe they got access to your keys, they tricked you into using fake software or some other trickery or security breach. – RedGrittyBrick Nov 09 '23 at 20:40
  • Looks like a new output was created out of two inputs which is expected I guess since the second address is listed as a receiving address in electrum. It does this for any small amount deposited which is really strange. I’ve had those coins for a while in ledger live with no issues. – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 21:09
  • I’m using a coldcard so to spend I need to sign from coldcard which has not happened and these were new deposits on a new wallet with strong seed – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 21:10
  • @Murch I'm referring to b I think based on my issue but posting screenshots – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 21:13
  • Wallets don’t just do that for you. Did you send all your funds to yourself? Because, if you didn’t send the 3.73118785 ₿, someone else did. Have you verified that bc1qa4hrzegkrrq5fmyelma2y3lcs2papk5ee7suns is your address? – Murch Nov 09 '23 at 21:16
  • Looks like electrum or the program did immediately after making the deposits or the miner . Sharing some screenshots from Specter. If you look at my screenshots , it contains a data for scripts taken from Sparrow. The receive addresses were signed to recieve but whats the OP 0 for address ending with suns? The address in the 2 inputs were the 2 recieved addresses I got the coins on – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 21:21
  • Another example transaction: f9ad7ce7df96a2af17260ee13b34e498a913297c77e097beb62e80f5ef8b1575 – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 21:24
  • Using a COLDCARD BRAND NEW - MK4 following all instructions of dice rolls and seeds – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 21:25
  • I sent all funds from my own ledger live wallet to my cold card wallet [BRAND NEW]. It was a self transfer – caliGeek Nov 09 '23 at 21:26
  • You haven’t answered whether it is your address. Do you still control the funds? – Murch Nov 10 '23 at 13:50
  • Electrum states it’s a second receiving address so I’m just confused how to send now since the consolidated funds sit over there now. The UI is not very clear on how to send when this happens – caliGeek Nov 10 '23 at 15:16
  • @Murch I have the private keys for the two inputs linked to the output – caliGeek Nov 12 '23 at 05:21
  • Yeah, but that money has been spent already. Did you see that I edited my answer? It is likely that your money was stolen. – Murch Nov 13 '23 at 17:50
  • https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/8686#issuecomment-1809471904 – caliGeek Nov 14 '23 at 04:44