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Re: compressed and uncompressed addresses
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Upgrade00
on 05/02/2024, 13:19:21 UTC
By cheaper transactions do you mean on the blockchain network?
Yes, the fees you pay to get your transaction added to a block at a certain time is cheaper when using a compressed address.
Almost all addresses by default today are compressed.

Therefore a legacy address is uncompressed and a SegWit address is compressed.
Legacy addresses can be compressed or uncompressed, but by default today, they are mostly compressed and that's the recommended version.