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'''What a non-upgraded wallet can do'''

* Receiving bitcoin from non-upgraded and upgraded wallets
* Sending bitcoin to non-upgraded wallets
* Sending bitcoin to upgraded wallets using a P2SH address (less efficient)
* Sending bitcoin to upgraded wallets using a native witness program (more efficient) through [https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawiki BIP70] payment protocol
* Sending bitcoin to non-upgraded and upgraded wallets with traditional P2PKH address (without any benefit of segregated witness)
* Sending bitcoin to upgraded wallets using a P2SH address
* Sending bitcoin to upgraded wallets using a native witness program through [https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawiki BIP70] payment protocol

'''What a non-upgraded wallet cannot do'''

* Validating segregated witness transaction. It assumes such a transaction is always valid
* Sending bitcoin to upgraded wallets using a native witness program if BIP70 is not supported

== Deployment ==

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== References ==

*[[bip-0016.mediawiki|BIP16 Pay to Script Hash]]
*[[bip-0142.mediawiki|BIP142 Address Formats for Segregated Witness]]
*[[bip-0143.mediawiki|BIP143 Transaction Signature Verification for Version 0 Witness Program]]
*[[bip-0144.mediawiki|BIP144 Segregated Witness (Peer Services)]]

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