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03_3_Setting_Up_Your_Wallet.md
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## Create an Address
The next thing you need to do is create an address for receiving payments. This is done with the `bitcoin-cli getnewaddress` command. Remember that if you want more information on this command, you should type `bitcoin-cli help getnewaddress`. There are a variety of types of addresses, due to Bitcoin's evolution over the years. [§3.5](03_5_Understanding_the_Address.md) covers them all. For now, though we're just going to create an address of the default type, which is Bech32.
The next thing you need to do is create an address for receiving payments. This is done with the `bitcoin-cli getnewaddress` command. Remember that if you want more information on this command, you should type `bitcoin-cli help getnewaddress`. There are a variety of types of addresses, due to Bitcoin's evolution over the years. [§3.5](03_5_Understanding_the_Address.md) covers them all. For now, though we're just going to create an address of the default type, which is a Bech32 P2WPKH address.
```
$ bitcoin-cli getnewaddress
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}
}
```
Note that this address begins with an "tb1", which [means](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes) that it's a Bech32 address on either signet or testnet. The discussion of different address types in [§3.5](03_5_Understanding_the_Address.md) will also talk about all of their identifying prefixes.
Note that this address begins with an "tb1", which [means](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes) that it's a Bech32-encoded address on either signet or testnet. The discussion of different address types in [§3.5](03_5_Understanding_the_Address.md) will also talk about all of their identifying prefixes.
> :link: **SIGNET vs MAINNET vs TESTNET:** The equivalent mainnet address would start with a "bc1".