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title: Wallet Get Address APIs
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id: wallet-get-address
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---
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The Bitcoin-S wallet has a few different functions for getting a wallet address
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that all server different purposes.
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First, there is `getNewAddress`. This function will always return a new a address
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determined by the next address available address index.
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Second, we have `getUnusedAddress`. This function will return an address that has
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not ever received funds.
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Third, there is `getAddress`. This function takes in an `AccountDb`, `HDChainType`,
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and an `Int`. This will return the address associated with the pubkey at
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the resulting `BIP32Path`.
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## Address Queue
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The Bitcoin-S wallet uses a background thread meant to ensure safety when fetching addresses.
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This is to ensure independent calls to getNewAddress don't result in a race condition to the database that would generate the same address and cause an error.
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With this background thread, we poll the `addressRequestQueue` seeing if there are any elements in it, if there are, we process them and complete the Promise in the queue.
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There are two ways to configure the wallet's address queue.
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1. `addressQueueSize`: How big the address queue size is before we throw an overflow exception
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2. `addressQueueTimeout`: How long we attempt to generate an address for before it times out
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For an example configuration, checkout the [example config](../config/configuration.md#example-configuration-file).
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