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Bitcoin Address
Match Bitcoin addresses in legacy (P2PKH/P2SH) and SegWit Bech32 (bc1) formats.
Try it in RegexProPattern
regexJavaScript
/\b(?:[13][a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z1-9]{25,34}|bc1[a-zA-HJ-NP-Z0-9]{25,62})\b/gRaw source: \b(?:[13][a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z1-9]{25,34}|bc1[a-zA-HJ-NP-Z0-9]{25,62})\b
How it works
Legacy addresses start with 1 or 3 followed by 25–34 Base58 characters (no 0, O, I, l). Bech32 SegWit addresses start with bc1 followed by 25–62 chars from its restricted alphabet.
Examples
Input
1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNaMatches
1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Input
3J98t1WpEZ73CNmQviecrnyiWrnqRhWNLyMatches
3J98t1WpEZ73CNmQviecrnyiWrnqRhWNLy
Common use cases
- Wallet address validation
- Forensic / compliance scans
- Donation link generation
- On-chain analytics preprocessing