From 282054e554160d8ab849f2685dd9dcf62b442d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shannon Appelcline Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:58:01 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] clarified Bech32 encoding --- 03_3_Setting_Up_Your_Wallet.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/03_3_Setting_Up_Your_Wallet.md b/03_3_Setting_Up_Your_Wallet.md index c17c8d3..0d9ca29 100644 --- a/03_3_Setting_Up_Your_Wallet.md +++ b/03_3_Setting_Up_Your_Wallet.md @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ You now have a Bitcoin wallet. But you can't receive funds with a wallet. For th ## 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 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ $ bitcoin-cli getaddressesbylabel "" } } ``` -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".