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Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet for Android
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Sent BCH from Coinbase to BTC address in mycelium #459

Closed tkalfigo closed 6 years ago

tkalfigo commented 6 years ago

As title says, I transferred BCH (BitCoin Cash) from my Coinbase account to the BTC (Bitcoin) address of mycelium on my Android phone. The transaction is no longer pending (2h ago and 9 confirmations later) but the funds obviously not visible in BTC address.

I'm reading several similar cases online since the BCH and BTC addresses are indistinguishable from one another. Is there any action I can take to recover the funds?

tkalfigo commented 6 years ago

So, half understanding and half stumbling into the dark, I figured it out and recovered the funds.

Summary of what I did.

First installed on my phone a wallet that support BCH (mycelium is working on that, but even though I installed the mycelium bitcoin cash module app, no new app appeared and nothing changed in my existing mycelium app). The wallet of choice was Coinomi.

Then I used the 12-word BIP39 mnemonic to restore the mycelium wallet into coinomi + added Bitcoincash support (upper left corner, tap burger menu, bottom has +COINS where you add supported coins to see in your dashboard).

Afterwards, went on my PC (needed PC screen to scan a QR code with the coinomi app) to https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ and typed again my BIP39 mnemonic. Then scrolled down to Derived addresses. Looked up under column Address the BTC public address to which I had sent the BTH and ended up with this mess in the first place. Hovered mouse over Private key value corresponding to the BTC public address that received the funds. This showed up a QR code.

Back to coinomi, clicked the QR scan icon and in Ian Colmen's BIP39 page I scanned the QR of the private key that corresponds to the BTC address to which I had sent the BCH.

sergeylappo commented 6 years ago

Seems resolved. If you'll have any additional questions please feel free to open new issue or reopen this.

tkalfigo commented 6 years ago

My only question is: what does the mycelium bitcoin cash module actually do? And is there a know date when mycelium will have support for Bitcoin cash?

sergeylappo commented 6 years ago

@tkalfigo, sorry BCH functionality is still not rolled out, until then module is unusable. As soon as it would be rolled out it would allow you to discover and exchange your BCH to BTC.