Hi All,

I'm a total beginner to all this, but after hours of googling could find no straight answers so thought I'd ask on this forum.

Apologies if this has been asked many times before.

I have an Electrum wallet, and selected the Segwit option instead of Legacy, as I was advised to do this and it seemed like the default.

Having meticulously followed all instructions I went to an exchange called coinify.com to purchase a small amount of BTC to send to this wallet.

Coinify keeps telling me that the receive address I am copy-pasting over from my wallet is an "invalid address".

My searches are indicating this could be because Electrum is generating a certain kind of "Segwit" addresses, which exchanges do not like sending to. Is this the case?

Have I gone down a blind alley using a format that is going to be incompatible with everything else? Would I be better off starting from scratch with a different wallet?

Any advice from anyone with experience of Electrum or Coinify, would be much appreciated.