# BC1 address format

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/bc1-address-format/8901>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 18, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bc1-address-format/8901 "2020-01-18T02:20:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![HPTower](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/hptower/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@HPTower](https://bisq.community/u/HPTower)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bc1-address-format/8901/1 "2020-01-18T02:20:44Z")

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Why does Bisq not allow sending bitcoins to a BC1 address?

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**Author:** ![m52go](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/m52go/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@m52go](https://bisq.community/u/m52go)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/bc1-address-format/8901/2 "2020-01-18T05:15:46Z")

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Bitcoin addresses that start with bc1 are native segwit addresses. It’s not possible to send/receive funds from a native segwit address to a “legacy” P2PKH address (i.e., those starting with 1).

Updating Bisq to support bc1 addresses is a highly complex and time-consuming endeavor and probably won’t happen until Bisq itself is rebuilt in a fundamentally different way.

There was a tweet about this earlier today:

[https://twitter.com/bisq\_network/status/1218231357580685312](https://twitter.com/bisq_network/status/1218231357580685312)