How to convert Electrum seed into the format BIP39

Tom Walton

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Quote from: mpufatzis on February 07, 2018, 01:33:10 AM

There is another easier option, you can enter the private keys one by one to the wallet that support BG and avoid this conversion.

- I've tried to enter all private keys one by one - and I have not succeed.
It's easier and more correct to use seed from 12 words but in this case I have to convert it to right format.

At the end I would like to know how to do it for the future.

mpufatzis

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There is another easier option, you can enter the private keys one by one to the wallet that support BG and avoid this conversion.
I have never done it before, but they say that you have to send your bitcoins to another address before you enter the old private keys in order to claim your BG. (This one is in order to avoid double spending)
Just in case enter just one address, the one with the least coins and see what has happened.

Quote from: Tom Walton on February 06, 2018, 07:09:17 PM

Hi. I would like to get Bitcoin Gold from BTC which I had on Electrum wallet.
But there is a problem - how to convert Electrum seed into the format BIP39? Exodus wallet supporting BTG uses exactly this format.
On Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Electrum/comments/7dku5r/segwit_wallets_and_electrum/dq0be39/ they suggest to use converter https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ but I do not understand what to copy there... it's crazy collider Shocked

but not a converter.
Can somebody help me to find out how to use this thing? Where should I enter seed from Electrum and which settings should I use?

Thanks a lot for your advises.