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Is it possible to convert a taproot address into a native segwit address?
I am afraid the sent coins are irrevocably burned.
The reason is that P2TR addresses encode a (tweaked) public key, while P2WSH addresses encode a script hash. If someone would take a P2TR address so ...
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Bitcoin automatically diverted to bech32 address
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news: It looks like your funds are gone and the security of your computer is compromised. A quick google suggests that is one of the electrum phishing destination ...
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How to create a Bech32 address from a public key?
Ok, I figured out how to do it.
You need 3 pieces of information to construct the bech32 address.
hrp: the human-readable part. This is bc for mainnet and tb for testnet
witver: the witness version. ...
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Will a Schnorr soft-fork introduce a new address format (i.e. not bech32)
They will be distinguishable, but they will still be bech32 addresses.
The introduction of Schnorr signatures requires a new type of output. Segwit was designed with such extensibility in mind, and it ...
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Why does Taproot require a new address format?
Background
P2TR addresses will be encoded using Bech32, although likely an amended version. In anticipation of Taproot getting merged, some proponents tested the behavior of various wallets and ...
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Bech32 conversion to legacy P2PKH?
Is it safe to receive funds at this 1FJJd... address?
Kind of. Your wallet knows the private key that corresponds to that address as it is the same private key for the bech32 address. However it does ...
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How do bech32 addresses compare to P2SH addresses in transaction size?
bech32 produces smaller transactions than P2SH segwit transactions.
one extra byte per output to create P2SH outputs than to create bech32 utxos (P2SH uses OP_HASH160 and OP_EQUAL in addition to a 20 ...
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Are all three Bitcoin address types interoperable (legacy, segwit, native segwit)?
Absolutely!
Each address type handles transaction generation slightly differently but they all are interoperable with each other on the protocol level. If you run into an issue where one address type ...
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What is the difference between "native segwit" and "bech32"?
TL;DR: Native segwit refers to segwit outputs without P2SH-wrapper. Bech32 is the address format used to represent native segwit-v0 locking scripts.
Wrapped segwit vs native segwit
When segwit ...
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Can I mix P2PKH and P2WPKH inputs in the same transaction?
Is it acceptable to mix P2PKH and P2WPKH inputs in the same transaction as described above?
Yes, absolutely. In the same way that you can mix multisig and P2SH and P2PK inputs in the same transaction....
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Why bech32 address always starts with bc1q?
q is the Bech32 encoding of the number 0. For a segwit address, as defined in BIP 173, the number immediately following the separator is the witness version. In this case, bc1q, the q means it is a ...
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Which wallet libraries officially intend to use Bech32 addresses, and will the addresses generated by them be compatible?
Bech32 is an address format that was only recently proposed. While its design had input from multiple wallet authors, it is way too early to say anything about adoption.
It is important to realize ...
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How is Public Key extracted from (message, digital signature, address)
An algorithm called Public Key Recovery exists for ECDSA, which lets you construct the public keys for which a given pair of message and signature would be valid.
To explain the algorithm, remember ...
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How does the bech32 length-extension mutation weakness work?
I'm going to provide a more algebraic explanation of the issue.
Every valid (and invalid) Bech32 string can be seen as a polynomial in the variable x, where the coefficients are elements of GF(32). I'...
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Are Bitcoin addresses case sensitive?
Segwit addresses like the one you posted are case insensitive. Assuming your wallet is up to the spec, it should be able to send the BTC just fine.
If you have a transaction ID, look it up on an ...
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Which block explorers recognize bech32 addresses?
Blockchair announced support for Bech32 addresses last month.
This page about Bech32 adoption on bitcoin.it wiki page is tracking blockexplorers that support Bech32 addresses.
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Are all three Bitcoin address types interoperable (legacy, segwit, native segwit)?
There are no restrictions on sending from any type of outputs to any address type in the Bitcoin protocol, but some older wallets might not support sending to newer address types.
Let's take a better ...
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How do transaction costs compare between Bech32 addresses and legacy Bitcoin addresses?
Transfer from Legacy ⟶ SegWit: pay full fee (doesn't benefit from SegWit discount)
Transfer from SegWit ⟶ Legacy or SegWit: discounted.
Note: SegWit addresses can be Bech32 bc1... or they can be ...
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What the difference between old segwit (3) and new segwit address (bc)?
The difference lies in the encoding and the underlying representation in the transaction data stored on the blockchain.
The 3-segwit addresses are known as P2SH-P2WPKH or P2SH-P2WSH. This stands for ...
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In simple terms, what are the major differences between P2WPKH and P2WSH bech32 addresses?
P2WPKH - This stands for "Pay To Witness Public Key Hash" and the scriptPubkey is OP_0 0x14 {20-byte-hash}, where OP_0 is the version, byte 0x14 is the size of the data, and the {20-byte-hash} is a ...
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Why does the decode function of the segwit bech32 encoder/decoder take a hrp (human readable part) as input?
The HRP is part of the bech32 encoded string, and in the bech32 decoding API, it is returned along with the payload by the decoder, after checking the checksum.
We still want to compare it with the ...
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Most efficient way to store Segwit Address in a database
Is there a way to get to the hash160 address from bc1q34aq5drpuwy3wgl9lhup9892qp6svr8ldzyy7c
Yes, you could use the reference implementations in various languages to encode and decode a bech32 ...
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Can you break down what data is encoded into a bech32 address?
Bech32 addresses are defined in BIP 173.
This slide is taken from Pieter Wuille's presentation on bech32 at SF Bitcoin Devs in March 2017.
Different prefixes
A list of address prefixes on the Bitcoin ...
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Why doesn't signet use a unique bech32 prefix?
It used to, but we switched to using the testnet one to simplify things. It's a testnet so it doesn't really impact anyone if you screw it up (go to the faucet and get more if you lose them), and ...
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How do I Derive Bech32 Address from P2WPKH Output Script?
Okay so I think I've figured it out for anyone else wondering what exactly you have to do to derive an address from this type.
In the case of the already mentioned transaction, (coinbase of block ...
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What to do when a website says that my bc1... address is invalid?
The address that you are using starts with bc1 and is a bech32 address. Many online wallets still do not support this form of address, which is the reason you are getting the invalid Bitcoin address ...
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bech32 addresses beginning with "bcrt..." on regtest
Regtest and testnet are different networks. They are not compatible with each other.
Regtest is a private local network which is used solely for testing. It is primarily used for the regression tests,...
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Convert bech32 Bitcoin address to legacy
As Anonymous says, you simply cannot.
I'll try to highlight the important part of MCCCS's answer:
In Bitcoin Cash, cashaddr ("bitcoincash:...", similar to, but not quite bech32) and legacy addresses ...
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How to generate legacy receiving address in Bitcoin core 0.19.x.x
From within the GUI, no, and this is intentional. There is no reason to use P2PKH addresses anymore. If you need backwards compatibility, then that's what the P2SH checkbox is for.
But if you really ...
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Are all three Bitcoin address types interoperable (legacy, segwit, native segwit)?
At a protocol level, they are all compatible. Transactions can spend any of them, and send to any of them.
Wallet software may of course have restrictions, but these are usually not about ...
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