Why does Bisq claim that my earliest receive address has been used in 10 transactions?
Was it some kind of bug?

Yes, so it seems.

See https://bisq.community/t/privacy-address-reuse/5899

torte
1 Aug '18
When looking into my bisq account under
funds --&gt; Receive funds
I see that usually new addresses are used. But on the bottom there is one address 1A… used already more than a dozen times and I wonder why

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ManfredKarrer
Founder
Aug '18
Do you have the latest version? If there is a reuse of old addresses it is a bug. In older versions there was a bug with that but it should have been fixed a while back.

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torte
Aug '18
Upgraded to version 7.1 and did the same type of transaction where I saw the address reuse before. This time no address was reused, so everything worked fine.
Great job, thanks to the team!
As well I’m pleased that I can manage the addresses in the wallet one by one (as far as I know not a new feature but a good one for privacy reasons).


The release notes for version 0.7.1 on  4 Jul 2018  say


Fix reuse of change addresses


Which refers to Issue 1540

the first address generated by the HD wallet gets reused repeatedly, other addresses were used, only once per address, but these are clustered around the first address (e.g. with oxt.me) , allowing transactions to be linked. this also discloses disclosing balances etc to counterparties who may have personally identifying information due to the nature of the transfers