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Wow I can't follow that at all! Now I'm scared to ever spend my bitcoins!

• jamoes 14y ago
  He only got into that situation because he was using the software in a non-standard way, and he inadvertently deleted the "change-wallet" that had automatically been created for him. As long as you use the software in a relatively standard way and don't ever delete your wallet files, you'll be fine.
  • eric_bullington 14y ago
    This. If you save all wallet.dat files on any bitcoin clients that you use for transactions, you'll be fine. Don't be scared off by someone using the bitcoin client in a non-standard, unapproved way (and as long as you use the GUI and not the command line interface, you'll not have to worry about that).
• kzrdude 14y ago
  Just make sure you understand the software you are using. This mechanism isn't good for the user since you negate the efficiency of backups if your coins constantly move from older addresses to freshly created (unprotected until next backup) addresses. Some bitcoin clients fix this by using a deterministic generation of new addresses for the wallet.