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Board Electrum
Re: Electrum wallet: segwit and the @dresse starting with "3"
by
cryptorTUX
on 03/03/2018, 15:06:12 UTC
(sorry, I repost in english because nobody knows in my language)

Hello,

if I understood the @ btc with segwit must start with a "3"
I saw it at coinbase when they made the switch: my new reception btc @ starts well with a "3" ...

On the other hand on Electrum wallet no change of address (I just updated with 3.0.6)
yet it seems to be supported: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/#91

Is there any manipulation to do for passing the wallet in segwit

Thank you to enlight me...

There are basically 2 formats for SegWit one that starts with "3" . Another one starts with "bc1" or as it is called bech32. Both of these are compatible with SegWit. Altough some older clients can see addresses that starts with 3, they are not able to decode and see bech32. There is not much of the difference on which one you use from my understanding but these 2 are available formats for SegWit and electrums supports bech32 and was one of the first wallets to implement SegWit support.

As I understood main client has SegWit enabled, latest version of it.