Restore bitcoin wallet from seed

Go to ' Setting ', under ' Addresses ', my wallet names are Wallet1 and Wallet2. Scroll down to ' Derived Addresses ', there will be a lists of addresses and private keys. Find the address that you use to hold your funds, then copy its private key. Now you can export your funds from one wallet to another. Hope this post will help you to retrieve your private key. Feel free to comment or correct me if I make mistakes in this tutorial. Type in your Wallet Name It is time consuming to find your private keys that assigned to your public addresses if you have many of them.

Get Private Key Scroll down to ' Derived Addresses ', there will be a lists of addresses and private keys. For this reason many wallets make it possible to encrypt a mnemonic phrase with a password. The password can be used to create a two-factor mnemonic phrase where both "something you have" plus "something you know" is required to unlock the bitcoins. This works by the wallet creating a mnemonic phrase and asking the user for a password.

Then both the mnemonic phrase and extra word are required to recover the wallet. The BIP39 standard defines a way of passphrase-protecting a mnemonic seed. A similar scheme is also used in the Electrum standard. If a passphrase is not present, an empty string "" is used instead. Forgetting this password will result in the bitcoin wallet and any contained money being lost. Do not overestimate your ability to remember passphrases especially when you may not use it very often. The mnemonic phrase password should not be confused with the password used to encrypt the wallet file on disk.

This is probably why many wallets call it an extension word instead of a password. This feature also provides plausible deniability, because every password generates a valid seed and thus a deterministic wallet but only the correct one will make the desired wallet available. You could create a decoy wallet which has the same mnemonic phrase but a different password, and if physically coerced then reveal only the first password and keep the second a secret. On the other hand, the entity coercing you may already know about the concept of decoy wallets.

They could continue beating you until you give up two or three passphrases. For a longer discussion of this problem see Storing bitcoins The 5 dollar wrench attack. Most people write down phrases on paper but they can be stored in many other ways such as memorizing , engraving on metal, writing in the margins of a book, chiseling into a stone tablet or any other creative and inventive way.

I made the mistake of inputs. Having cleared the data directory, restart Electrum. I'm trying to restore my wallet from the seed but even after I enter the seed and creation date, the restore button won't enable. The Wizard will once again show itself. That is the destination address and itll be from your existing electrum wallet. You will get all your addresses. Click the next button.

Open the Electrum on the online machine. I now use Electrum, instead. This is possible, to disable 2FA when you restore wallet from seed. Your wallet can be recovered entirely from its seed: Classic wallet into an Electrum wallet, I cant use the seed to restore those keys, i.