Receiving Address

[depth10]

Installed standard wallet (p2wpkh).   When I click on Receive tab, it shows an address that starts with "bc' instead of the normal 1 or 3.  When I try to input this address into my SENDING wallet, it shows as invalid.  What am I doing wrong?

Receiving (public) address from Electrum: bc1qrc48nwkpprje3v9uup2ud8ddgcqfyqrs48lm2a

[1715093327]

1715093327

[1715093327]

1715093327

[HCP]

You have created a "SegWit" wallet... Electrum generates "bech32" SegWit P2WPKH addresses (that start "bc1") which are not backwards compatible with a lot of wallets... instead of the more common and fully backwards compatible SegWit P2SH-P2WPKH addresses that start with a "3".

Refer: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_wallet_dev/

If you want to use SegWit, you'll need to use a different wallet for now until bech32 addresses become more commonly "accepted".
If you want to continue using Electrum, You'll need to create a "Standard" wallet... and select "Standard" instead of "SegWit"

[Abdussamad]

Also see this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Electrum/comments/7dku5r/segwit_wallets_and_electrum/