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Board Electrum
Re: Electrum new wallets => Seed Type: Segwit
by
nc50lc
on 12/12/2022, 04:51:17 UTC
We are seeing the obsolescence of Legacy addresses. Maybe they will be rare someday and not generated by most new software.
Since there's literally no advantage of using it over SegWit, I don't see why not.

Electrum supported legacy in the GUI for quite a while because of the compatibility issue of bech32 addresses to some services, exchange and wallets.
But now that most of services/exchange support bech32, they decided to remove the ability to create it in the GUI.

For reference, here's the pull-request: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/6806