<p>open console and then type create(seed_type='standard')
then you open this with File-&gt;Open-&gt;THE NAME YOU CHOSE usually Default</p>

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Kecesi
<p>I am trying to get along the electrum wallet command line in ubuntu. However, my exchange only accepts withdraws to canonical non-SegWit addresses (i.e. it only generates with a &quot;bc1&quot; prefix). Is there a way to specifically specify such an option when typing <code>electrum createnewaddress</code>?</p>

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"bc1" addresses are segwit.
Pieter Wuille
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Create a non-SegWit address in electrum wallet
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# Create a non-SegWit address in electrum wallet

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-11)

I am trying to get along the electrum wallet command line in ubuntu. However, my exchange only accepts withdraws to canonical non-SegWit addresses (i.e. it only generates with a "bc1" prefix). Is there a way to specifically specify such an option when typing `electrum createnewaddress`?

**Tags:** transactions, address-generation

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: "bc1" addresses are segwit.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2024-03-29. Score: 0

open console and then type create(seed\_type='standard')
then you open this with File->Open->THE NAME YOU CHOSE usually Default


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