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Topic: Electrum new wallets => Seed Type: Segwit - page 2. (Read 239 times)

legendary
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December 11, 2022, 06:37:56 PM
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I recently discovered that in newer Electrum versions you are not able to generate Legacy addresses anymore from a fresh wallet.

They somehow invented a "Seed Type: Segwit"
 
When I created a new wallet using their own seed standard (not bip39), I noticed that they didn't ask me which derivation path ( I wasn't able to choose Legacy). So I tried to import that new Seed into a new Electrum wallet. Look what I found:



This Seed has a "type: segwit"  it cannot generate, from electrum, legacy addresses.

I found this so weird.

We are seeing the obsolescence of Legacy addresses. Maybe they will be rare someday and not generated by most new software.
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