Wallet Guide - How to recover the legacy segwit BIP44 coins in old wallets

[dangershony]

When the nodes wallet was refactored to use a sqlite db segwit was also introduced However the segwit derivation path where introduced under the BIP44 derivation path instead of the BIP84 path dedicated for segwit addresses

On startup

The node will look at the wallet version, if its a legacy V1 wallet (or no version because old wallets did not have versioning) the wallet will try to detect if there are any segwit UTXOs, if such are found the node will print a warning and shut down.

How to recover

TBD

Relevant BIPs https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0084.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0049.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki

[dangershony]

This is actually solved in code, no need to do anything for old wallets, the solution is to add also the segwit scripts for wallets version smaller then 2, this will discover the segwit scripts for old wallets and allow to spend them However wallet from now on can only support new segwit addresses when creating a dedicated segwit account type