Nano Ledger S vs Electrum Receive Address Number?

[jerry0]

I went and made a request for btc from a site to my nano ledger s.  When i clicked on receive with my nano ledger s, it gave me a wallet address and it started with a number 3.  I then clicked okay and pasted that btc address to that site to make the request.  I use ledger live to use my ledger s.


I just checked my nano ledger s again to click receive to see what address it generates and it appears to be the same one that starts with the number 3.  At the moment, i have not received my btc yet from when i requested it earlier. 


Can someone here confirm it should start with a number 3 as the btc receive address for the nano ledger s?  When i used electrum, i recalled the receive btc address always started with with a number 1.

[1715044559]

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[1715044559]

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[TryNinja]

You had a legacy wallet on Electrum (addresses starting with a 1).
Now, you use a Ledger Nano S with a Segwit address (starting with a 3).

Nothing wrong there.

The website probably didn't send your coins yet. Have you tried accessing it and seeing if the coins were sent? Or if there is any transaction ID attached to it?

[jerry0]

Hi thanks for confirming that.  I just thought about the segwit address and yes that is what i did to set it up.


That site usually takes at least 12 hours to send it at the minimum.  Most of the time its less than a day.  I just wanted to make sure of this because if they haven't processed the transaction yet... i would then ask them to cancel the transaction.  But when i tried the receive address on ledger s again and the address was the same receive address... i thought okay that has to be the address then.


Thanks.

[joniboini]

You can use Electrum with segwit address too (or native segwit). Judging by your story it seems either you use an old address to generate your address and then import it to Electrum.

Anyway, seems like your site uses manual withdrawal. Hopefully, there won't be any problem with your transaction.

[Lucius]

This is not in any way related with Electrum, but with Nano S&Ledger Live. To my knowledge Ledger Live will only create BTC legacy account if such account is existed from before, otherwise it will create only nested SegWit account where addresses start with 3.

jerry0, after all questions you asked (and to which you received the answers), you should know that bitcoin is currently using three different format addresses, legacy (starting with 1), nested SegWit (starting with 3), and bech32 format (starting with bc1).