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... and how do you tell P2WPKH invoice addresses apart from P2PKH?

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  • P2PKH addresses are 33-34 characters long, use Base58Check encoding, and (on mainnet) start with "1".
  • P2SH addresses are 34 characters long, use Base58Check encoding, and (on mainnet) start with "3".
  • P2WPKH addresses are 42 characters long, use bech32 encoding, and (on mainnet) start with "bc1q".
  • P2WSH addresses are 62 characters long, use bech32 encoding, and (on mainnet) start with "bc1q".
  • P2TR addresses (coming in november) are 62 characters long, use bech32m encoding, and (on mainnet) start with "bc1p".

P2SH-wrapped P2WSH exists too. These cannot be distinguished from other P2SH addresses, until they are spent.

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