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I am using bitcoind. It generates the BTC addresses(not segregated). How to get segwit addresses? Do I have to change the settings in bitcoin.conf file?
bitcoin-cli getnewaddress -- generates address that starts with '1'
How to generate Segwit address using bitcoind?
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Make sure you are using Bitcoin-core v0.16 bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo then in your bitcoin.conf add
addresstype=bech32
As @Meshcolider comment if you want to get p2sh address you should set:
addresstype=p2sh-segwit
But I would use bech32 since bech32 produces smaller transactions than P2SH segwit transactions.
For Bitcoin-core version 0.15 send
bitcoin-cli addwitnessaddress 1BRo7qrYHMPrzdBDzfjmzteBdYAyTMXW75
to get p2sh address.
After adding, when I use "getnewaddress" , will it give me a segwit address directly? – merklexy – 2018-03-09T11:55:35.447
Yeah, nothing more required. You are most welcome! – Adam – 2018-03-10T13:28:43.123