how come electrum addresses dont work?

[BurntHumanOfferings]

After spending about $1000 in labor+ to find out what *i* was doing wrong i find out it seems  electrum is giving me addresses that the top markets and half the verifying services wont accept (half the verifying services claim they are legit tho). Used to work find a month ago. Now my money is also tied up in  these blackholes; who knows if i will ever get them back from invisible statosi jeebus.

 Whats going on? how come no one else but my rl friends has mentioned this as well or are their posts being deleted? I know reddit is nothing but bad people trying to censor you on every reddit page so im quite sure this wouldnt get posted had i posted there so i have came here.    Even if you fix we are unable to send bc to the wallet how could i trust this wallet to be able to send coin to others once its in there?

[TryNinja]

Let me guess, you created a Segwit wallet your addresses start with “bc1”, right?

Those addresses are still not supported everywhere. You could create a legacy wallet (addresses starting with a 1) or do some workaround to create a nested Segwit wallet (starting with a “3”) as both of them are supported everywhere.

To create a legacy wallet, just create a new one and select “Standard” instead of “Segwit” when prompted.

If you eant a nested Segwit starting with a “3”, follow these steps: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3057784.msg31519322#msg31519322

P.S: they are not “supported” everywhere as they are seen as invalid by a few wallets/services, but you can always send money on that address to any service/wallet; so your coins are never lost.

[nc50lc]

I know that this is a little bit off-topic but...
Make sure that you're using the latest version from the official site (electrum.org) because any older version has a vulnerability on its server error report. Just look at the drama here in Electrum board.Back to topic:
As for Bech32 addresses, you can just use it as your "storage wallet" and send small amounts to a "Hot Wallet" (standard or P2SH nested SegWit) that supports all services and sites.
Because you might be needing it for huge transactions since its inputs and outputs are almost half the "weight" of a standard transaction, means roughly half transaction fee is required compared to a same-size transaction from standard addresses.

[BurntHumanOfferings]

Let me guess, you created a Segwit wallet your addresses start with “bc1”, right?

Those addresses are still not supported everywhere. You could create a legacy wallet (addresses starting with a 1) or do some workaround to create a nested Segwit wallet (starting with a “3”) as both of them are supported everywhere.

To create a legacy wallet, just create a new one and select “Standard” instead of “Segwit” when prompted.

If you eant a nested Segwit starting with a “3”, follow these steps: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3057784.msg31519322#msg31519322

P.S: they are not “supported” everywhere as they are seen as invalid by a few wallets/services, but you can always send money on that address to any service/wallet; so your coins are never lost.

 actually im pretty sure i created basic. and it gave me segwit.
 then im quite sure yesterday created ANOTHER basic to test it and it gave me segwit.

 Last month the first wallet im pretty sure  worked with the companies i am trying to now use like coinbase. Now neither work. I had already read up on segwit and as a pure noob i know the route to choose was not segwit.  Coinbase accepts segwit

 sometimes im wrong, but im quite sure i created 2 basic and got 2 segwits, but i know last month things went fine.

[Abdussamad]

there is no such thing as a basic wallet. what characters do your addresses start with? bc1, 1, or 3?

[HCP]

File -> New\Restore -> Standard Wallet -> Create a new seed -> "Legacy"

If you don't select Legacy, you will get a native Segwit wallet that generates "bc1" addresses.