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Board Electrum
Re: Electrum new wallets => Seed Type: Segwit
by
bitmover
on 12/12/2022, 20:49:19 UTC
3Chymistu2BS56TuweMrwVgEyCLHXrtFxR

This address is also obsolete  Cheesy
Unless you are using the console, you can only create a new wallet that uses bch addresses in electrum new versions.


I would say there is one little advantage on legacy addresses.  You can easily verify a signed message from a legacy address using any Software.
It is trivial for a third party to download and install Electrum if they don't already have it in order to verify a signed message if the wallet software they are using does not support public key recovery via segwit addresses.

I agree that it is trivial... but I expected those basic features to be universal, and not something that only works in electrum and a few more wallets.