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Receive Address
A "Receive Address" is a location on the blockchain where currency can be sent. It can be your address so that others can send funds to you, or it can be someone else's address so you can send funds to them. The receive address is tightly mathematically related to a public key, but it is not the exact same thing. It is perfectly safe to give out your receive address since no one can steal funds knowing only that address. For privacy and security, it is recommended that you only use that address one time to receive funds. The next time you want to receive funds you should generate a completely new receive address - all wallets except Paper and Brain wallets will do this for you. When you spend funds from one of your receive addresses the entire currency content at that address will be sent out and then you will receive back "change" into a new receive address. You change is the difference between the amount that was originally at the address minus the amount of your purchase and transaction fees.
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