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Board Electrum
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Re: Electrum new wallets => Seed Type: Segwit
by
The Sceptical Chymist
on 12/12/2022, 18:58:56 UTC
⭐ Merited by bitmover (2) ,NeuroticFish (1)
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.
Yeah, but they're so cute!  Lol.  I remember reading really old threads here, and vanity addresses used to be a pretty big thing--I don't know if they still are, but it'd be pretty damn hard to create anything cool out of a segwit address unless maybe it starts with a 3.

On a related note, if you import a Mycelium seed phrase into Electrum, you have to choose BIP38 and then you get a choice of address types, legacy included.  That confused the hell out of me back when I was much more ignorant about these things (I'm still ignorant, but less so because of the collective wisdom of bitcointalk experts).