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Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
https://electrum.org
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No option to choose script type and derivation path when creating keystore from master key #7880

Closed eugenesan closed 2 years ago

eugenesan commented 2 years ago

I am trying to create a watch only wallet from public key.

With xpub import, it defaults to p2pkh with m/0 derivation path and shows incorrect for BIP84 addresses. With zpub import, it defaults to p2wpkh with m/0 derivation path but somehow shows addresses for m/84'/0'/0'.

While, it works with zpub+BIP84 combination, it make it impossible to import xpub+BIP84.

Now, when zpub is being phased out due incompatibility with taproot, it seems like xpub is becoming the default again and we need an option to import xpub+BIP84.

ecdsa commented 2 years ago

the z in zpub means segwit. we will probably use a different system with taproot.