Address purpose field that has been been stored with wallet sending and receiving addresses since BIP70 payment protocol support was added in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2539. This field is not currently used for any logic inside the wallet, but it is still shown in RPC and GUI interfaces and saved for new addresses. It is basically redundant with an address's IsMine() result.

Synopsis

Declared in <wallet/types.h>

enum class AddressPurpose : int;

Members

Name

Description

RECEIVE

Address is used to receive funds.

SEND

Address is used to send funds to another party.

REFUND

Never set in current code may be present in older wallet databases

Non-Member Functions

Name

Description

PurposeFromString

Parse an address purpose from its serialized string form.

PurposeToString

Convert an address purpose to its serialized string form.

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