# Create Multi-Sig Address

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874>\
**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874 "2021-08-23T04:03:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ZcashUsersGroup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zcashusersgroup/32/18804_2.png) [@ZcashUsersGroup](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ZcashUsersGroup)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874/1 "2021-08-23T04:03:53Z")

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The Zcash Community Group is interested in creating a multi-signature address to require multiple members to sign off on any single transaction.

> **[createmultisig - Zcash 4.5.1-1 RPC Docs](https://zcash-rpc.github.io/createmultisig.html)**
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> Zcash 4.5.1-1 RPC Docs - createmultisig

Is the above call appropriate to achieve this? Are there other calls that are relevant? Is there an example using this call? How do individual z-addresses interact with the multi-signature address? Is the functionality of the multi-signature address limited relative to a typical z-address?

Thank you in advance for helping us

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**Author:** ![hanh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/hanh/32/27853_2.png) [@hanh](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/hanh)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874/2 "2021-08-23T09:20:09Z")

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The short story: Multisignature addresses do not support z-addresses.

> **[Learn Zcash](https://z.cash/learn/)**
>
> Learn the basics of the Zcash protocol, privacy, blockchain and so much more.

### Does Zcash have multi-signature transactions?

Yes, transparent addresses support multi-signature transactions but shielded addresses do not yet. You can see the difference between single-signature and multi-signature transparent addresses with their starting characters: “t1” and “t3” respectively.

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**Author:** ![ZcashUsersGroup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zcashusersgroup/32/18804_2.png) [@ZcashUsersGroup](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ZcashUsersGroup)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874/3 "2021-09-06T04:59:16Z")

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We successfully created a multi-sig address and added it to our full node wallet ([https://zcashblockexplorer.com/address/t3JbNWu81oUZFZJW7yTT8cZAF7VLHD5FyPC](https://zcashblockexplorer.com/address/t3JbNWu81oUZFZJW7yTT8cZAF7VLHD5FyPC))

> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ zcash-cli validateaddress t3JbNWu81oUZFZJW7yTT8cZAF7VLHD5FyPC  
> {  
> “isvalid”: true,  
> “address”: “t3JbNWu81oUZFZJW7yTT8cZAF7VLHD5FyPC”,  
> “scriptPubKey”: “a9140054ccd9ab688c8c2b4a49371281ed7812d2ff4f87”,  
> “ismine”: false,  
> “iswatchonly”: false,  
> “isscript”: true,  
> “script”: “multisig”,  
> “hex”: “522103742f5537d830a0ad335fdc5a98179cd65033042ae1dcb5788de1ea4dd153a4062102e579c1a3386028d1bf02fd489bb8bf71da55c52e65a83a963e564a430727efb752ae”,  
> “addresses”: [  
> “t1ZiQS28FD8z917A5GhN7f1VQdkKaV2UHAv”,  
> “t1dj91i8tzzXL86bJkawg8WDzzVGXg9y5Th”  
> ],  
> “sigsrequired”: 2,  
> “account”: “”  
> }

How do we spend money from this new multisig address? We tried z\_sendmany

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/3X/d/a/da27bde970862535e31a941719db7e278dcbf80f.png)

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**Author:** ![hanh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/hanh/32/27853_2.png) [@hanh](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/hanh)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874/4 "2021-09-06T05:45:50Z")

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Zsendmany is for sending shielded zec to multiple recipients.

You can follow this step by step example from bitcoin.

> <https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/3966071>

It should be very similar for zcash.

Be careful, **the change output is not created for you**!!

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**Author:** ![ZcashUsersGroup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zcashusersgroup/32/18804_2.png) [@ZcashUsersGroup](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ZcashUsersGroup)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874/5 "2021-09-06T06:04:31Z")

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🙏❤

> [@hanh](#):
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> Be careful, **the change output is not created for you**

What’s the worst that can happen?

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**Author:** ![hanh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/hanh/32/27853_2.png) [@hanh](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/hanh)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/create-multi-sig-address/39874/6 "2021-09-06T06:08:47Z")

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The change goes to the miner.