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March 17, 2018, 08:34:22 PM
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Upgraded my wallet to 16.0 recently and generated a new receiving address.  Noticed it starts with a 3 now?  I thought that indicated a multi-sig address???  
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March 17, 2018, 08:36:40 PM
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Quote from: ccgllc on March 17, 2018, 08:34:22 PM
Upgraded my wallet to 16.0 recently and generated a new receiving address.  Noticed it starts with a 3 now?  I thought that indicated a multi-sig address??? 

It does. As well as a nested SegWit address. Did you create a SegWit address as opposed to a legacy address?
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March 17, 2018, 08:38:37 PM
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Quote from: BTCforJoe on March 17, 2018, 08:36:40 PM
Quote from: ccgllc on March 17, 2018, 08:34:22 PM
Upgraded my wallet to 16.0 recently and generated a new receiving address.  Noticed it starts with a 3 now?  I thought that indicated a multi-sig address??? 

It does. As well as a nested SegWit address. Did you create a SegWit address as opposed to a legacy address?

SegWit would explain it... bitcoin core 16.0 defaults to creating SegWit compatible addresses.  In fact, I haven't found an option yet to disable that - not that I can think of any reason to do so.

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