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Topic: With Bitcoin Core 16.0 wallet new receiving addresses are starting with a 3? (Read 112 times)

copper member
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Upgraded my wallet to 16.0 recently and generated a new receiving address.  Noticed it starts with a 3 now?  I thought that indicated a multi-sig address??? 

It does. As well as a nested SegWit address. Did you create a SegWit address as opposed to a legacy address?

SegWit would explain it... bitcoin core 16.0 defaults to creating SegWit compatible addresses.  In fact, I haven't found an option yet to disable that - not that I can think of any reason to do so.

Thanks!
hero member
Activity: 882
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Upgraded my wallet to 16.0 recently and generated a new receiving address.  Noticed it starts with a 3 now?  I thought that indicated a multi-sig address??? 

It does. As well as a nested SegWit address. Did you create a SegWit address as opposed to a legacy address?
copper member
Activity: 658
Merit: 101
Math doesn't care what you believe.
Upgraded my wallet to 16.0 recently and generated a new receiving address.  Noticed it starts with a 3 now?  I thought that indicated a multi-sig address???  
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