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Re: Question regarding links between oldish bitcoin addresses and segwit ones
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ETFbitcoin
on 12/09/2021, 08:53:14 UTC
⭐ Merited by Husna QA (2) ,Psycopyro (1)
I think we don't speak about the same freewallet, I use the https://freewallet.io/ counterparty one.

Yes, it's different from what other member talking about. While it's open source, this is first time i heard this wallet and looks like it's not popular (total star only 51 & 7 on GitHub).

As I understood, an private key starting with 5, give a legacy address only, and also give an uncompressed adress.
Yes. Uncompressed WIF keys start with 5 and should only generate uncompressed legacy addresses. You can use them to generate other addresses, but these address will be non-standard and it will be very difficult to successfully spend any coins sent to such addresses.

And here's example how difficult it is, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5192454.0.