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Good morning to all,

I have one installation/iteration of Electrum BTC.

I have BTC wallet A and BTC wallet B.

I have accidently opened both on the same installation/iteration of the Electrum BTC.

Is there any way these two could be linked together? No transactions or any active action was done while on the same Electrum installation.

I opened both from seed and the connection was made thru Tor.

Thank you
Hamedit

You can open many wallet files at the same time, Electrum doesn't care.

Two wallets derived from seed phrases cannot be merged, i.e. you can't merge two seed phrases and have one wallet with all the same addresses from the original two.  You can, however, create a new wallet by importing individual private keys, and merge as many as you like.

Hello DireWolfM14,

thank you for the quick reply.

I do not need to merge them, on the contrary, I need them to be kept separate and not to be linked together.

Just for the sake of the argument.
- Wallet A can be used to identify me
- Wallet B is was created for the "illegal" stuff. No transactions were done yet.

So can I use the Wallet B without having to fear the fact that they both briefly run on the same Electrum instance and therefore somewhere is the record that these two wallets are on the same "machine" or installation, hence correlated and linked together?

Thanks again for your expertise.
Hamedit.

If you do not want the two wallet to be linked together, use your own Electrum server with Tor. Or you can reroute the connection anytime you want to connect to another wallet. Another option is to have the wallet on two different devices connected with Tor on each devices. For privacy and to avoid mistakes, run your own server with Tor.

Okay!! Don't know about the illegal stuff though but every wallet you create will be link to you  from your transaction  inputs and outputs unless you decide not to make any transaction connection  and by hiding and using of mixers to enhance your anonymity and running your own server could establish a standalone connection as it has been said by @Charles-Tim

Well, it depends how you look at it.  In basic terms, no - with blockchain, no one can directly connect that both wallets are owned by the same person.  But if we're talking the Electrum server then yeah, I'd say there's a way.  Cause both wallets likely use the same server, right? And those servers can log IP addresses and stuff and  so if both wallets is accessing the same server from the same IP, then the server admin could potentially link transactions from both to the same user.   

I dunno its kinda tricky.  But servers see IP addresses and traffic patterns and all that.  So there's a ways to connect dots if someone digs deep enough.  But in simple terms - blockchain, no.  Servers maybe yes.