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Re: What is bettter
by
pooya87
on 22/10/2019, 05:27:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by figmentofmyass (1)
the easiest and quickest way to do it would be to set up an electrum wallet (standard wallet > create a new seed > legacy) which you can use to receive from non-segwit wallets. from there, you can send the coins to your native segwit hardware wallet.


Better than legacy is to use P2SH which are compatible segwit addresses, like a transitional address.
They offer lower fees and are compatible with all old software.

They start with 3.

This is true and i made one with Electrum, unfortunately it isn't exactly "easy", unlike the "pick legacy" suggestion above.

it is a good thing that it is not easy to make nested-SegWit type of wallet in Electrum because the transactions type associated with these types are bigger even if "you" pay lower fee, the nodes are still forced to store a bigger transaction size!
after more than 2 years if you can't use (native) SegWit then you either have to stop using the services that are causing you the trouble or stick to legacy in my opinion.