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How to send bitcoin to another wallet, and how to find a bitcoin wallet address, step by step

Published 2026-10-14By the CryptoGuardz Register Desk6 min read15 sources

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In short, from the documents

How to send bitcoin to another wallet

Sending bitcoin means pasting the recipient's address, choosing the amount and fee, and signing. Coinbase's web flow has 6 steps and Trezor Suite's has 4. Addresses start with 1, 3, bc1q or bc1p. Mempool.space recommended 1 sat/vB on 14 October 2026, and bitcoin.org says a transaction "cannot be reversed".

Piece published 2026-10-14Reviewed by CryptoGuardz Register Desk, editorial desk

To send bitcoin to another wallet, open Send in your wallet, paste the recipient's bitcoin address, enter the amount, check the network fee, and confirm. Coinbase's web flow has 6 steps and Trezor Suite's has 4. On 14 October 2026 the network fee recommended by mempool.space was 1 sat/vB for every speed. Whatever the fee, bitcoin.org states that "A Bitcoin transaction cannot be reversed".

The steps below are quoted from each provider's help pages, read on 14 October 2026. Nothing here is financial advice.

How do I find my bitcoin wallet address?

Open the receiving wallet and choose Receive, or its equivalent, on the bitcoin account. The address is what the sender pastes. It is safe to share; the recovery phrase is not, and nobody legitimate asks for it. Coinbase's Wallet help page puts the step as "Copy your wallet address from Coinbase Wallet or extension." Coinbase's own receive steps for the exchange app were not on the pages that could be read: not verified.

A wall of numbered metal mailboxes — Illustration: numbered mailboxes. An address tells the sender where to deliver; it is safe to share, unlike the recovery phrase. Photo: Tasha Kostyuk / Unsplash

Check which kind of address the wallet gave, because not every sender accepts every kind:

Starts with	Type	Defined in	What the provider docs say
1	Legacy (P2PKH)	Version byte 0x00	Trezor: "generally more expensive with regards to fees"
3	Legacy SegWit (P2SH)	BIP-13	"byte 5 becomes the character '3'"; "will most often work" per Trezor
bc1q	Native SegWit	BIP-173, Deployed	Checksum detects any error in at most 4 characters
bc1p	Taproot	BIP-350, Deployed	Used for "version 1 and later" witness outputs

BIP-173 also says encoders "MUST always output an all lowercase Bech32 string", and segwit addresses are "always between 14 and 74 characters long". Trezor notes that Native SegWit "can prevent problems when transacting with an exchange or service that does not yet properly support Taproot", so if a sender rejects a bc1p address, a bc1q one from the same wallet is the usual fallback.

How do I find my Coinbase Wallet address?

In Coinbase Wallet, the address belongs to the wallet, not to a Coinbase account. The help page says to copy it from the app or extension, and then paste it into Etherscan, an Ethereum block explorer, to check its transactions; a bitcoin address needs a bitcoin explorer instead. Coinbase Wallet names Bitcoin among its chains on the register. Coinbase Wallet and a Coinbase exchange account give different addresses, because one is self-custody and the other is held by Coinbase; the difference is set out in Coinbase vs Coinbase Wallet.

A warning from the search for this piece. On 14 October 2026, searches for "how do i get my bitcoin address on coinbase" returned PDFs hosted on a French public authority's website that present a phone number as Coinbase support. A 2018 Coinbase blog post says scammers "purchase ads to boost the phone number's place in search results", and that "Coinbase phone support does not make outgoing calls." The current help centre allows one exception: if a support call you started drops, "the agent will call you back within five minutes" on the same number. It also says: "Coinbase staff will never ask you to send cryptocurrency to external addresses."

How to send bitcoin from Coinbase

Coinbase's help centre gives these steps on Coinbase.com:

"From your Dashboard, choose Send crypto."
"Select the asset to send and input the amount."
"Select To and choose a supported network to transfer the asset."
"Choose from your favorites or add a new address in the text bar."
"Select Preview Send and review the details."
"Choose Send now to initiate the transfer."

How to send crypto on CoinbaseVideo by Coinbase on YouTube. Watch on YouTubeCoinbase's own walkthrough of sending crypto, to set beside the help centre steps quoted in this section.

In the mobile app the route is the Pay tab: select the asset and amount, enter the recipient, review, and "Select Pay now."

Fees at each point: "On-chain sends incur network fees and take time to process." The fee page says Coinbase "will charge a fee based on our estimate of the prevailing network fees". Sends from one Coinbase user's primary balance to another's are "without any charges", and over Lightning Coinbase charges "a processing fee equal to 0.2% of the amount of bitcoin transferred." Coinbase's warning on step 3: "be sure to select the correct network or your funds will be lost", and "Coinbase can't retrieve funds sent to the incorrect address or using the incorrect network."

How to send bitcoin from a hardware wallet

Trezor Suite, desktop, per Trezor's guide:

"From the Dashboard, click Send in the top right corner, then select the account and asset you want to send."
Enter the recipient address and the amount. On the fee, "we recommend leaving this on the default."
"When everything looks right, click Review & send."
"Sign on your device to approve, then click Send in Trezor Suite to broadcast the transaction."

Step 4 is the point of the hardware. Trezor warns that malware can swap an address after it is pasted, so the address on the device screen is the one to compare against the original source. More on the device side in what is a hardware wallet.

What is the network fee to send bitcoin?

A rate in satoshis per virtual byte, set by the market for block space, not by the wallet. At 11:43 UTC on 14 October 2026, mempool.space's recommended fees were 1 sat/vB in all four tiers it publishes, from next block to economy. That is a quiet network. The rate moves, and bitcoin.org warns that a fee below what the network is prioritising means "the first confirmation may take considerably longer." Blocks arrive on average about every 10 minutes, but "there is no guaranteed minimum or maximum delay." For large amounts, bitcoin.org lists 6 confirmations as the "Minimum recommendation for high-value bitcoin transfers." Custodial apps such as Coinbase charge their own estimate rather than the raw rate.

Can a bitcoin transaction be reversed?

No. bitcoin.org: "A Bitcoin transaction cannot be reversed, it can only be refunded by the person receiving the funds." Trezor says the same of its flow: "After you click Send, the transaction is on its way and can't be taken back." Only before broadcast can it be cancelled.

Two One Way street signs on a pole in front of city buildings — Illustration: One Way signs. Once broadcast, a bitcoin transfer only goes forward; a refund needs the receiver. Photo: Brendan Church / Unsplash

That makes the address check the whole of the safety margin. Address poisoning targets exactly that habit. MetaMask's help centre: "The scammer sends you a transaction of negligible value from the dummy account they created", so "you might inadvertently copy their address from your transaction history". Trezor's rule is shorter: "Never copy an address from your transaction history." Get the address fresh from the recipient each time and compare it in full, not only the first and last characters a poisoned lookalike is built to match.

If bitcoin has already gone to a scammer, the reporting routes and the warnings about paid "recovery" services are on the crypto scam recovery page. A Cash App variant of these steps is in how to transfer bitcoin to Cash App.

Quick answers

How do I send bitcoin to another wallet?

Choose Send, paste the recipient's address, enter the amount, review the network fee, and confirm or sign on the device. Coinbase lists 6 web steps; Trezor Suite lists 4. Sends are irreversible.

How do I find my bitcoin wallet address?

Open Receive on the bitcoin account in your wallet. Addresses start with 1, 3, bc1q or bc1p, defined in BIP-13, BIP-173 and BIP-350.

How do I find my Coinbase Wallet address?

Coinbase's help page: "Copy your wallet address from Coinbase Wallet or extension." Ignore phone numbers found through search. Coinbase does not cold-call; its help centre says an agent only calls back if a support call you started drops.

How much does it cost to send bitcoin?

The network fee was 1 sat/vB on mempool.space at 11:43 UTC on 14 October

Coinbase charges its estimate of network fees on-chain, and 0.2% over Lightning.

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