I thought legacy is the most expensive one. I can see the difference between legacy and segwit, but segwit and taproom I don't see any difference on the address.

So what is the cheapest gas prices now?

Oh, it is native segwit where I have my bitcoins on. 5 USD I have on taproot. But I wonder what are the difference and what if I send funds to the wrong thing. What will happen?

What is now the cheapest. Legacy, segwit, native segwit or taproot?

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Yeah, legacy is the most expensive. There is a small difference between segwit and taproot, but taproot will be most cost effective and very popular for lightning channels, utxo sharing schemes, and other L2 protocols built on top of lightning.

For single signature wallets, segwit will be the most cost effective, but if you want to hide in the crowd, i.e. you don't want your address to stand out as "probably a single sig wallet", then you may choose to use taproot anyway.

So, if I have my funds on native segwit (bc1xxxx1f) and I send to taproot (bc1xxx2f), will my funds get lost or is it compatible?

You can move funds between different types of addresses at any time, you will not lose funds.

Note: you can tell if it's native segwit or taproot by the address prefix:

bc1q = native segwit

bc1p = taproot

Thank you for this answer. q and p I didn't know.