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# What Are the Uses of Each Address in Leather?

Each Leather account has a Native SegWit, a Taproot and a Stacks address. What each one is for.

Each Leather account has three addresses. Each one receives different assets.

## Native SegWit address

Starts with `bc1q`. Use it to receive bitcoin (BTC). It is the "Bitcoin (BTC)" row under "Receive". See [What is a Native SegWit Address?](/learn/what-is-a-native-segwit-address.md).

![Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Taproot and Stacks (STX) addresses on the Receive screen](https://4209755586-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FaSQhveafXrLjROsW3JZ1%2Fuploads%2F68Nd3zHdwHh0NTfoDbUq%2Fe-support-use-cases-bitcoin-addresses-01-receive-address-rows.png?alt=media\&token=248cecfc-57dd-4452-ba7a-8edf571fa19e)

## Taproot address

Starts with `bc1p`. It is the "Bitcoin Taproot" row under "Receive". Leather can spend BTC on it, and shows "Some coins come from a Taproot address" when a transaction does. Leather no longer supports Ordinals inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, Runes or Stamps. See [Why isn't all my Bitcoin balance available or spendable?](/balances/why-isnt-all-my-bitcoin-balance-available-spendable.md) and [Ordinals and inscriptions](/discontinued/ordinals-inscriptions.md).

## Stacks address

Starts with `SP`. Use it to receive STX, Stacks tokens such as sBTC, and Stacks NFTs. It is the "Stacks (STX)" row under "Receive".

A Stacks address is encoded with c32check, a format of its own. Its balance changes only through Stacks transactions.

Send each asset only to the matching address. A Bitcoin address cannot receive STX, and a Stacks address cannot receive BTC.

See [Receive Assets](/get-started/receive-assets.md) and [Understand Bitcoin Address Types](/transactions/bitcoin-address-types.md).