BIP 49/84 segwit receive addresses cannot be used when btcwallet is ran as a daemon

[AlexSSD7]

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[guggero]

Yes:
https://github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/search?q=bip49&type=code
https://github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/search?q=bip84&type=code

[AlexSSD7]

Oh, ok. Why only legacy addresses are being generated then?

[guggero]

You probably need to specify the key scope to use: https://github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/blob/master/waddrmgr/scoped_manager.go#L154

[AlexSSD7]

How to do that? (I'm running the daemon via CLI, not calling it from the code FYI)

[guggero]

I'm not very familiar with the CLI. What command are you using exactly?

[AlexSSD7]

./btcwallet --testnet --btcdusername xxx --btcdpassword xxx -u xxx -P xxx

[AlexSSD7]

getnewaddress RPC method generates a legacy address, not P2SH segwit or native bech32 address.

{
  "jsonrpc": "1.0",
  "result": "n12UeNcL4ruCiHbmgEgieAwXVbFNZrobQh",
  "error": null,
  "id": 1
}

[guggero]

Yes, you're right. It looks like the functionality to generate SegWit addresses was only added to the internal DB but never exposed to the RPC interface.

[AlexSSD7]

Oh, okay. Thank you.

Also I had no idea that I can use btcwallet programmatically without running the actual CLI daemon.