tuse a wallet-owned dummy_address, to minimize risk of losses. This was removed in 11d135b without explanation - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet HTML git clone https://git.parazyd.org/electrum DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Submodules --- DIR commit 97c443a86d908d1ee5558d9da372a7b191bbd689 DIR parent f49f5383158cfe7dff33075780a2704064224c4a HTML Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 09:36:13 +0100 use a wallet-owned dummy_address, to minimize risk of losses. This was removed in 11d135b without explanation Diffstat: M gui/qt/main_window.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- DIR diff --git a/gui/qt/main_window.py b/gui/qt/main_window.py t@@ -252,6 +252,9 @@ class ElectrumWindow(QMainWindow, MessageBoxMixin, PrintError): self.wallet = wallet self.update_recently_visited(wallet.storage.path) self.import_old_contacts() + # address used to create a dummy transaction and estimate transaction fee + a = self.wallet.addresses(False) + self.dummy_address = a[0] if a else None self.accounts_expanded = self.wallet.storage.get('accounts_expanded',{}) self.current_account = self.wallet.storage.get("current_account", None) self.history_list.update() t@@ -1071,7 +1074,7 @@ class ElectrumWindow(QMainWindow, MessageBoxMixin, PrintError): else: fee = self.fee_e.get_amount() if freeze_fee else None if not outputs: - addr = self.payto_e.payto_address if self.payto_e.payto_address else None + addr = self.payto_e.payto_address if self.payto_e.payto_address else self.dummy_address outputs = [('address', addr, amount)] try: tx = self.wallet.make_unsigned_transaction(self.get_coins(), outputs, self.config, fee)