For the first time I realized that, among the various addresses that appear in Ywallet for me, the first address (main unified address) has a greater number of characters than the orchard unified address. I also noticed that when performing a transaction using the main unified address, the coins were transferred to the orchard address. I would like to understand how this works.
while the main unified address has more characters, in Ywallet the orchard address has a smaller amount of characters. I also noticed that in Zashi only a single unified address appears, it seems that it is the same as the main address that appears in Ywallet. What does this difference between addresses mean? how does this work? Could it be that I’m going crazy and seeing things that don’t exist?
Hey.
This is because Orchard doesn’t have an address encoding of it’s own.
A orchard “address” is just the unified address containing only the orchard receiver, leaving the sapling and transparent parts empty.
This is because Unified Addresses has a priority list for receivers. Orchard has the highest priority right now, second by Sapling and then transparent. Wallets should always try to follow this priority list when sending funds.
Ywallet will not use the orchard pool even when the destination has an orchard receiver if it has no orchard funds, because going between pools reveals the amount. But what you said is true in the majority of cases.
This is a link to the zechub page on UAs. IDK why it previews with this Donation thing.