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Re: What is the story of old addresses not safe and the need for new addresses?
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on 21/02/2021, 12:16:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by benjamin07 (1) ,pooya87 (1)
Quote from: benjamin07 on Today at 11:25:50 AM
What do I need to do to use the new SegWit addresses? I looked in the Send section and it is all still the same: Pay to etc and control over the transaction fee...

You need to generate the SegWit address from "send" section first. There are 2 types of SegWit address, which are

1. P2SH-SegWit (sometimes called segwit address or p2sh segwit)

Code:
3NhtbwQZ71yHyE7y1eanttNbkHPkusdATD

2. P2WPKH (sometimes called native segwit or bech32)

Code:
bc1qlfyx65dyc8usd0m0p682yght6dy9gqvn3ttx7z

P.S. i don't remember if you can generate SegWit address from wallet.dat created by older version of Bitcoin Core (before SegWit is supported by Bitcoin Core)