different address types

[joe1234]

Hello

I intend to sweep funds from a paper-wallet and other funds from an old BRD-wallet (12 words known) into Electrum (preinstalled on Tails).


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Do I have to care something about during start/setup of Electrum (Tails) if I inted to make a donation to https://grapheneos.org/donate
(there are different addresses listed/suggested at https://grapheneos.org/donate and I don't know which address-type to use) ?




2.
Sometimes in the future I will be required to show simple Bitcoin tasks to an audience. That means a transaction (of about 5 USD) to a
person of the audience should be confirmed withhin about 5-10 minutes. Should i use Bech32m (Taproot) addresses for such a demo?



Thank's in advance!

[Charles-Tim]

1.
Do I have to care something about during start/setup of Electrum (Tails) if I inted to make a donation to https://grapheneos.org/donate
(there are different addresses listed/suggested at https://grapheneos.org/donate and I don't know which address-type to use) ?

You can use the one that starts from bc1q (segwit version 0) or bc1p (segwit version 1 also know as pay-to-taproot-address) to donate bitcoin.

2.
Sometimes in the future I will be required to show simple Bitcoin tasks to an audience. That means a transaction (of about 5 USD) to a
person of the audience should be confirmed withhin about 5-10 minutes. Should i use Bech32m (Taproot) addresses for such a demo?

You can use any if the two but make sure you use fee rate of high priority. You can check the mempool to know the fee rate that you should use.

This mempool site is good for beginners: https://mempool.space/

[Zaguru12]

Hello

I intend to sweep funds from a paper-wallet and other funds from an old BRD-wallet (12 words known) into Electrum (preinstalled on Tails).

Nothing to worry about, you simply just import the wallet seed phrase into an electrum wallet and choose the Bip39 option. BRD wallet supports native and nested SegWit address so when choosing the script type make sure you know the address script type to use. Here is a thread by Fillippone to guide you

For security purposes you can as well create a new electrum wallet and seed funds from there to there.

1.
Do I have to care something about during start/setup of Electrum (Tails) if I inted to make a donation to https://grapheneos.org/donate
(there are different addresses listed/suggested at https://grapheneos.org/donate and I don't know which address-type to use) ?

You can send bitcoin to any type of its address formats from any type of format. It’s not necessary they must be in same script format. So pick any of the first two from the site.

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Sometimes in the future I will be required to show simple Bitcoin tasks to an audience. That means a transaction (of about 5 USD) to a
person of the audience should be confirmed withhin about 5-10 minutes. Should i use Bech32m (Taproot) addresses for such a demo?

The problem with bitcoin transaction is you can’t set a time limit for it. The default time for a new block to mine is 10 minute if you pick the high priority fees but still this time varies as it can be way less than 10 minutes or higher than it.