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Bither - a simple and secure Bitcoin wallet!
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importing electrum seed to cold wallet #63

Open douchebanner opened 6 years ago

douchebanner commented 6 years ago

hi i would like to know if the electrum seed format is compatible with bither cold walled seed.

ive tried importing electrum seed to bither cold wallet but i get "invalid word" error.

does bither use a different seed format than electrum?

thanks

andronoob commented 4 years ago

Electrum had refused to adopt BIP39, hence its seed (mnemonic words, to be specific) is not compatible with other BIP39-compliant wallets.

I can't find the function on Bither to import BIP32 master keys (xprv/xpub, and yprv/zprv/ypub/zpub for segwit), so I think it's not possible to import Electrum seed into Bither.

However, because Bither seed is BIP39-compliant, it's possible to import a Bither seed into Electrum.

Although Electrum has been warning that "maybe we won't support BIP39 importing in the future", it still supports BIP39 importing for now, you just need to New/Restore a wallet in Electrum. (I didn't find this feature on mobile (Android) version of Electrum, you must use desktop version)