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> :book: ***What is a Legacy (P2PKH) address?*** This is a Legacy address of the sort used by the early Bitcoin network. We'll be using it in examples for the next few sections. It's called a Pay to PubKey Hash (or P2PKH) address because the address is a 160-bit hash of a public key. Using a hash of your public key as your address creates a two-step process where to spend funds you need to reveal both the private key and the public key, and it increases future security accordingly. This sort of address remains important for receiving funds from people with out-of-date wallet software. > :book: ***What is a Legacy (P2PKH) address?*** This is a Legacy address of the sort used by the early Bitcoin network. We'll be using it in examples for the next few sections. It's called a Pay to PubKey Hash (or P2PKH) address because the address is a 160-bit hash of a public key. Using a hash of your public key as your address creates a two-step process where to spend funds you need to reveal both the private key and the public key, and it increases future security accordingly. This sort of address remains important for receiving funds from people with out-of-date wallet software.
As described more fully in [§4.6: Creating a Segwit Transaction](04_6_Creating_a_Segwit_Transaction.md), the Block Size Wars of the late '10s resulted in a new sort of address: SegWit. This is the preferred sort address currently, and should be fully integrated into Bitcoin-Core at this point, but nonetheless we're saving it for §4.6. As described more fully in [§4.6: Creating a Segwit Transaction](04_6_Creating_a_Segwit_Transaction.md), the Block Size Wars of the late '10s resulted in a new sort of address: SegWit. This is the preferred sort of address currently, and should be fully integrated into Bitcoin-Core at this point, but nonetheless we're saving it for §4.6.
SegWit simply means "segregated witness" and it's a way of separating the transaction signatures out from the rest of the transaction to reduce transaction size. Some SegWit addresses will sneak into some of our examples prior to §4.6 as change addresses, which you'll see as addresses that begin with "tb". This is fine because the `bitcoin-cli` entirely supports their usage. But we won't use them otherwise SegWit simply means "segregated witness" and it's a way of separating the transaction signatures out from the rest of the transaction to reduce transaction size. Some SegWit addresses will sneak into some of our examples prior to §4.6 as change addresses, which you'll see as addresses that begin with "tb". This is fine because the `bitcoin-cli` entirely supports their usage. But we won't use them otherwise.
There are two addresses of this sort: There are two addresses of this sort:

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## Send a SegWit Transaction The Easy Way ## Send a SegWit Transaction The Easy Way
So how do you send a Bitcoin transaction? Exactly like any other transaction. It doesn't matter if the UTXO is SegWit, the address is SegWit, or some combination thereof. You can expect `bitcoin-cli` to do the right thing. Though you can tell the differences via the addresses, they don't matter for interacting with things at the `bitcoin-cli` or RPC level. (And this is one of the advantages of using the command line and the RPC interface, as suggested in this tutorial: experts have already done the hard work for you, including things like how to send to both legacy and Bech32 addresses. You just get to use that functionality to your own advantage.) So how do you send a Segwit transaction? Exactly like any other transaction. It doesn't matter if the UTXO is SegWit, the address is SegWit, or some combination thereof. You can expect `bitcoin-cli` to do the right thing. Though you can tell the differences via the addresses, they don't matter for interacting with things at the `bitcoin-cli` or RPC level. (And this is one of the advantages of using the command line and the RPC interface, as suggested in this tutorial: experts have already done the hard work for you, including things like how to send to both legacy and Bech32 addresses. You just get to use that functionality to your own advantage.)
Here's an example of sending to a SegWit address, the easy way: Here's an example of sending to a SegWit address, the easy way:
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