Bitcoin P2WPKH address (native SegWit, bc1q)

ID p2wpkhaddr

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

Native SegWit address of the pay-to-witness-public-key-hash (P2WPKH) type: witness version 0 with a 20-byte public key hash (BIP 141), encoded with Bech32 (BIP 173). Mainnet addresses have the prefix bc1q and 42 characters. They are written in lower case, or in upper case in QR codes, but never in mixed case. Testnet addresses (tb1q) are not matched.

Parent datatype

Cryptocurrency address crypto_address

Categories

Cryptocurrency

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Presidio

CRYPTO

python-stdnum

stdnum.bitcoin

Check digit

bech32

Quality

100/100

Metacrafter rules

2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)

p2wpkhaddr data, common/cryptocurrency.yaml
p2wpkhaddr_by_field field, common/cryptocurrency.yaml

Supported by tools

DataPrep, Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, metacrafter, OpenMetadata auto-classification, Microsoft Presidio, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^(?:bc1q[02-9ac-hj-np-z]{38}|BC1Q[02-9AC-HJ-NP-Z]{38})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
bc1qw508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kv8f3t4	P2WPKH example of BIP 173
BC1QW508D6QEJXTDG4Y5R3ZARVARY0C5XW7KV8F3T4	The same address in upper case (BIP 173 test vector)
bc1qar0srrr7xfkvy5l643lydnw9re59gtzzwf5mdq	Example address of the Bitcoin Wiki article on invoice addresses
bc1qw508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kv8f3t5 invalid	last character changed, the checksum fails
bc1qW508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kv8f3t4 invalid	mixed case is not allowed

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Адрес Bitcoin P2WPKH (SegWit, bc1q)

Sources

Use this record

Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/p2wpkhaddr
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