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doc: document p2sh-segwit address gen for faucet coins

Now that the default newaddr type is bech32, this step seems to be tripping
people up.

Reported-by: #c-lightning users
Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
ppa-0.6.1
William Casarin 7 years ago
committed by Rusty Russell
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@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ If you don't have any testcoins you can get a few from a faucet such as
[TPs' testnet faucet][tps] or [Kiwi's testnet faucet][kiw].
You can send it directly to the `lightningd` address.
You may need to generate a p2sh-segwit address if the faucet does not support
bech32:
# Return a p2sh-segwit address
cli/lightning-cli newaddr p2sh-segwit
[tps]: http://tpfaucet.appspot.com/
[kiw]: https://testnet.manu.backend.hamburg/faucet

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