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Title: Can't receive Bitcoins Post by: BittiKayttaja on February 28, 2019, 10:53:34 AM So yesterday I travelled 35km to nearest Bitcoin ATM just to know that this ATM wasen't able to send me Bitcoin reason I don't know. Today now I watched blockchain website and I putted my Electrum address in it and I saw that there is not such a address as that. Im kinda new to Bitcoins and my English is very bad and I hope Yo can help me out how I can get some Bitcoins to my address. :)
Title: Re: Can't receive Bitcoins Post by: Abdussamad on February 28, 2019, 11:21:33 AM If the address begins with bc1 then create a new non-segwit wallet as per this guide (https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-an-electrum-wallet/) and use that instead. The reason you have to do this is because bech32 addresses are not yet supported by a lot of exchanges, ATMs and other wallets so receiving coins to them is problematic.
Title: Re: Can't receive Bitcoins Post by: Rickorick on February 28, 2019, 11:22:42 AM You can try exchanges like coinbase or you use a p2p site like localbitcoins.com
Title: Re: Can't receive Bitcoins Post by: BittiKayttaja on February 28, 2019, 12:01:36 PM If the address begins with bc1 then create a new non-segwit wallet as per this guide (https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-an-electrum-wallet/) and use that instead. The reason you have to do this is because bech32 addresses are not yet supported by a lot of exchanges, ATMs and other wallets so receiving coins to them is problematic. Uh now it works thanks :) I was kinda thinking it could be segwit this morning but now I'm sure of it that it was the problem Title: Re: Can't receive Bitcoins Post by: jackg on February 28, 2019, 11:02:55 PM If the address begins with bc1 then create a new non-segwit wallet as per this guide (https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-an-electrum-wallet/) and use that instead. The reason you have to do this is because bech32 addresses are not yet supported by a lot of exchanges, ATMs and other wallets so receiving coins to them is problematic. Uh now it works thanks :) I was kinda thinking it could be segwit this morning but now I'm sure of it that it was the problem If you're holding you might want to sent it to your segwit wallet while the fees are low... You can use btc.com as a block explorer instead of blockchain or any other explorer that supports bech32. Title: Re: Can't receive Bitcoins Post by: elda34b on March 01, 2019, 03:25:54 AM Uh now it works thanks :) I was kinda thinking it could be segwit this morning but now I'm sure of it that it was the problem If you want to use your Bitcoin regularly, or at least transfer it back and forth to exchanges, maybe switching to nested segwit (address that start with 3) can be an option. It is supported by a lot of exchanges (though not all of them support it yet), so it should be easy to manage your Bitcoin. |