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that all server different purposes.</p>
<p>First, there is <code>getNewAddress</code>. This function will always return a new a address
determined by the next address available address index.</p>
<p>Second, we have <code>getUnusedAddress</code>. This function will return an address that has
not ever received funds.</p>
<p>Third, there is <code>getAddress</code>. This function takes in an <code>AccountDb</code>, <code>HDChainType</code>,
and an <code>Int</code>. This will return the address associated with the pubkey at
the resulting <code>BIP32Path</code>.</p>
<h2><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="address-queue"></a><a href="#address-queue" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Address Queue</h2>
<p>The Bitcoin-S wallet uses a background thread meant to ensure safety when fetching addresses.
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.
With this background thread, we poll the <code>addressRequestQueue</code> seeing if there are any elements in it, if there are, we process them and complete the Promise in the queue.</p>
<p>There are two ways to configure the wallet's address queue.</p>
<ol>
<li><p><code>addressQueueSize</code>: How big the address queue size is before we throw an overflow exception</p></li>
<li><p><code>addressQueueTimeout</code>: How long we attempt to generate an address for before it times out</p></li>
</ol>
<p>For an example configuration, checkout the <a href="/docs/config/configuration#example-configuration-file">example config</a>.</p>
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