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Title: Illegal character l at position. Invalid bitcoin adress
Post by: woodgrob on January 21, 2019, 06:50:59 PM
I started a new wallet Electrum. He generated me a bunch of addresses. I do not see any of these addresses in blockchain.com.

Here is an example:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qrfnm3lple85fh4eltk9hys6t37x67q7rmr8xnn

Help me please!


Title: Re: Illegal character l at position. Invalid bitcoin adress
Post by: BitcoinGirl.Club on January 21, 2019, 06:54:04 PM
I started a new wallet Electrum. He generated me a bunch of addresses. I do not see any of these addresses in blockchain.com.

Here is an example:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qrfnm3lple85fh4eltk9hys6t37x67q7rmr8xnn

Help me please!
It's segwit so you won't be able to see them in regular blockchain explorer. Get a standard/legacy wallet. the address will starts with 1***********

You can see it here: https://chain.so/address/BTC/bc1qrfnm3lple85fh4eltk9hys6t37x67q7rmr8xnn


Title: Re: Illegal character l at position. Invalid bitcoin adress
Post by: TryNinja on January 21, 2019, 06:55:28 PM
Those are bech32 (native Segwit) addresses. They are not supported by the block explorer you are trying to use (Blockchain.info);

Either use a different explorer that supports it (e.g blockchair.com) or create a wallet with nested Segwit addresses (starting with a 3 and are supported everywhere).
Here is a tutorial for that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3456040.msg36735893#msg36735893


Title: Re: Illegal character l at position. Invalid bitcoin adress
Post by: Heisenberg_Hunter on January 21, 2019, 06:59:05 PM
Blockchain.com doesn't track native segwit addresses. Electrum either generates Native Segwit (one that starts with bc1) and Legacy Addresses (starts with 1). Try other explorers like blockchair.com, blockstream.info

[1] https://blockchair.com/search?q=bc1qrfnm3lple85fh4eltk9hys6t37x67q7rmr8xnn
[2] https://blockstream.info/address/bc1qrfnm3lple85fh4eltk9hys6t37x67q7rmr8xnn

P.S You seem to have a balance of 0.14672466 BTC. That's great  ;)


Title: Re: Illegal character l at position. Invalid bitcoin adress
Post by: woodgrob on January 21, 2019, 07:00:28 PM
Those are bech32 (native Segwit) addresses. They are not supported by the block explorer you are trying to use (Blockchain.info);

Either use a different explorer that supports it (e.g blockchair.com) or create a wallet with nested Segwit addresses (starting with a 3 and which are supported everywhere).
Here is a tutorial for that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3456040.msg36735893#msg36735893
Thank you very much - reassured !!