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If it's for importing private keys there is a thread here on the forum that you can bookmark check this link below you can also read this guide How to import the private key into Electrum.
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5096376.msg51114438#msg51114438
This will never work in Electrum since the derivation path that you can edit only applies up to the BIP39's account index.
Any additional derivation paths will work regardless despite being non-standard.
Whatever the derivation path that you've set,
Electrum will follow it up with internal/external index (for receiving and change path), then the "address_index";
both are hardcoded to be unhardened.
Kinda annoying, my understanding from an old paper by Vitalik is that hardened addresses are far more secure due to a trivially easy attack on the whole HD wallet if one child private key is compromised.Any additional derivation paths will work regardless despite being non-standard.
Whatever the derivation path that you've set,
Electrum will follow it up with internal/external index (for receiving and change path), then the "address_index";
both are hardcoded to be unhardened.
Is actually the same kind of address that Electrum creates (except with xx instead of the xx', which is unnecessary because you already have 3x hardening in the root).
I originally decided to do things the hard way and generate addresses externally because I wanted a lot more control over the seed generation process than Electrum allows. Good info though, thanks
