Today we are releasing btcwallet 0.6.0, along with a minor release to btcd (0.11.1) which is required to build the new btcwallet. This wallet release primarily focuses on adding account support, integrating transaction history in the new database, and making wallet an importable package for reuse in other binaries. As always, general fixes and improvements all around are included. See the release notes for the full details.
Accounts
Multiple account support
btcwallet takes a different approach to accounts compared to Bitcoin Core wallet, and it’s important to understand why this is done and how it affects usage. In Bitcoin Core, account balances and the addresses used to receive outputs are separate concepts, and balances can be moved across accounts without an on-chain transaction. While this model certainly has its uses, we feel that it comes with disadvantageous privacy implications as well, since outputs received by an address of one account can be spent when debiting a balance from an unrelated account.
