Once I created an Electrum chilly storage pockets, I began out with 20 receiving addresses. I shortly burned through utilizing these, sending BTC to my pockets whereas eager to solely use any given tackle as soon as.
Along with the offline chilly storage pockets, I additionally created two Electrum watch-only wallets, one on my related PC at residence and a second on a related PC at work. Oddly, when creating the watch-only pockets for my residence PC, I merely selected so as to add the 20 unique receiving addresses to the watch-only pockets; however after I created the watch-only pockets on my work PC, I chosen the choice to make use of the grasp pub key (xpub/ypub/zpub), which appeared to populate my unique 20 receiving addresses with out me having to import them (and now whereas enhancing in these further particulars I’m pondering that is seemingly the supply of the surprising 30 addresses that simply confirmed up in my watch-only pockets).
So as a result of I used to be utilizing up my unique 20 receiving addresses, I generated 110 extra addresses utilizing the console (one thing like: pockets.change_gap_limit(110)) in my airgapped chilly storage pockets. However after I went so as to add these further 110 addresses to my Electrum watch-only pockets, I noticed that my watch-wallet had an extra 30 addresses already unexpectedly added to my pockets (for the reason that final time I logged in), for a complete of fifty (30 + the 20 unique), not counting the 110 I generated in my chilly storage pockets.
I in contrast the extra 30 addresses with the 110, and none of them match. So now I’m perplexed and a little bit cautious of these further 30 addresses, since they only confirmed up in my watching-only pockets, coincidentally after I was nearly to import/add the 110 addresses generated by my chilly storage pockets.
Though I’m cautious, I hope there’s a completely logical reply to elucidate the surprising addition of 30 new addresses in my watching-only pockets.