DeepOnion Stealth Addresses Tutorial
DeepOnion Stealth Addresses Tutorial [20180518]
Intro
- stealth addresses allow payments recipient to hide his real address by
usage of kinda payments identifier a.k.a. stealth address:
smYpLwnGCHuxTm9TCEgjKkSY5E7foJ9fuupSXsrU2VFNBLKHFKev3Z5EJTMmA6uGJEERFeyfYYwCe1cZiUecoTpMEE9RcFdptWyfvf - each time stealth address receives ONION a new standard address (which accepts coins) is generated
Read more:
https://deeponion.org/community
Before making any actions make sure to backup the wallet.dat file!
1. Open the wallet and go to Receive coins tab:
2. Press New address → set Stealth Address checkbox → enter some label:
3. The new stealth address (stealth address #1) will be created:
4. Let's send coins to it. Here is the sender's (another) wallet:
Our stealth address in the Pay To field. Note that you can add a narration (24 chars max) when sending coins to stealth addresses.
5. The usual sending confirmation:
6. The picture from recepient's end after sending ONION to his address (the new usual address appeared with the label equal to the used stealth address):
Unconfirmed incoming transaction (note the narration info):
7. And the full transaction info after confirmations:
Great tutorial on a great software, true anonymity!
This tutorial will help those who are struggling to understand how Stealth Addresses work.
good tutorial..it helps me to use stealth address very easily..thanks for this tutorial
Everything is clear and understandable. Easy to use, easy to explain to another. Thank you.
very nice tutorial, is simple to understand! I love stealth addresses
Good tutorial, you made it very simpel to understand how to use the wallets stealth addresses.
Great tutorial! I think many will be useful who does not know how to send Onion anonymously using Stels addresses!
Great stuff @escapefrom3dom
Knew how to use SA's but thanks a lot, this will be a great resource for those wanting to know.
Excellent article. More and more technology for the project. It's great.
Nice and simple guide. Thank you