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Can I use the wallet functionality in bitcoin cli daemon with P2SH segwit on testnet/regtest? Meaning, can I receive on these addresses and send from them?

And if I can, how?

I cannot find it anywhere in the help. The only one that gets close is addwitnessaddress, but that does something else, too.

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addwitnessaddress is what you want

create it, fund it and spend coins from it - then check your transactions on any blockexplorer that they are in segwit format

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    When I try to use addwitnessaddress, it wants another argument with an address. I don't understand what that argument means.
    – Karel Bílek
    Apr 25, 2017 at 13:30
  • private key generates address. then addwitnessaddress adds segwit address generated from your address which can be redeemed with that private key
    – amaclin
    Apr 25, 2017 at 13:45
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    Call getnewaddress first, and then pass the result to addwitnessaddress to convert it to P2SH-embedded P2WPKH. addwitnessaddress also works on P2SH multisig addresses (in which case it will produce a P2SH-embedded P2WSH).
    – Pieter Wuille
    Apr 26, 2017 at 4:28
  • Ooooh. This is a little confusing, IMO, but yeah it works
    – Karel Bílek
    Apr 27, 2017 at 14:08

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