How to claim BTC forks from old Electrum wallet?

Beerwizzard

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on February 09, 2022, 02:29:09 AM

What is the type of your wallet? Is it a SegWit wallet? Not sure about ElectronCash but Coinomi should work regardless of the wallet's type.

Coinomi doesn't support Electrum's seed, but you can try to sweep the private keys[1] after exporting them[2]. If the format is not recognized, try to not include the prefix (p2wsh).

[1] https://coinomi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/29000013432-what-is-the-difference-between-importing-a-private-key-and-sweeping-a-wallet-
[2] https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-get-the-private-keys-from-my-electrum-wallet

Everything went smoothly with sweeping.
Thanks!

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Quote from: Beerwizzard on February 09, 2022, 02:10:11 AM

I would appreciate if someone advice a wallet that will work with old Electrum seeds.

It depends on how old the seed is. But unless it's from 2015 or before that date, old seed is not "old", it's just seed.

Now, the best wallet for Electrum seeds is... Electrum. Recover your wallet, sync it, see the addresses tab and which addresses have ever had money on them. Check which ones are eligible for fork coins, get the private key of those and import in any fork wallet you want (although I think that only Coinomi is reputable enough for the job).

Keep in mind that before claiming the fork coins you'd better move your bitcoins away from the addresses you're claiming for. There were cases users didn't do that and the bitcoins got stolen.

OmegaStarScream

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What is the type of your wallet? Is it a SegWit wallet? Not sure about ElectronCash but Coinomi should work regardless of the wallet's type.

Coinomi doesn't support Electrum's seed, but you can try to sweep the private keys[1] after exporting them[2]. If the format is not recognized, try to not include the prefix (p2wsh).

[1] https://coinomi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/29000013432-what-is-the-difference-between-importing-a-private-key-and-sweeping-a-wallet-
[2] https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-get-the-private-keys-from-my-electrum-wallet

Beerwizzard

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I'm trying to get my forks via 12-word seed or dat file.

The problem is that my seed phrase is not accepted by any wallet I've tried. Coinomi is not accepting Electrum keys at all. Tried desktop wallets listed on bch.info and it still didn't work. Electron Cash wallet even showed that my seed is too old.

I would appreciate if someone advice a wallet that will work with old Electrum seeds.

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