Dustin Trammell to Satoshi: re: Bitcoin Transfer — mislabeled address discovery (January 18, 2009)

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 00:54 +0800, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:

It should be your Bitcoin address at home that you received it with. There’s no way for it to know who it’s from, so the best it can do is tell which of your addresses it was received on. You can create multiple addresses and give a different address to each person and label them to help figure out who’s sending to you.

Ah! I didn’t even notice it was my address at home, you’re right (: I do have multiple addresses created at home so I didn’t make the connection.

It doesn’t know any names other than what you tell it. The name printed there is what’s associated in your address book for that address, either under the Address Book button or the “Change…” button to the right of your Bitcoin address.

Ahh you’re right, ‘Satoshi’ is associated with the address that received the payment under the Change button’s addresses. I don’t recall setting that value though, is that the default or something? (this is the first, default, address that the application generated itself when I first ran it)

— Dustin D. Trammell dtrammell@dustintrammell.com http://www.dustintrammell.com