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1  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Importing a wallet to Sparrow Wallet on: January 26, 2024, 09:42:29 PM
1. Since you were able to import the seed and right address and balance are showing then yes you got it right.

2. Yes both wallet will definitely reflect your balance, because the seed phrase can be in multiple wallets at same time and all can do anything to the coins there. You need to create a new seed phrase on sparrow and then move all transactions there through sending them.

3. My advice is to create a new wallet on sparrow but definitely on an airgapped device for two reasons. First the wallet has gone online which means it might have been compromised without you knowing and the hacker can still have access to it even if you import to sparrow wallet and delete trust wallet

Secondly trust wallet is never advisable because it is closed source so are the seed phrase generate from them because we don’t know how it is saved maybe the wallet has the seed phrase through back door you wouldn’t know. So the best is to generate a new seed phrase using an open source wallet.

Thanks to all who replied! Appreciate the quick responses!
2  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Importing a wallet to Sparrow Wallet on: January 26, 2024, 09:12:25 PM
Hi all. I have a few questions about the import feature in Sparrow Wallet.

1. I had been storing all of my BTC in Trust Wallet and wanted to switch over to Sparrow Wallet. Most of the tutorials I viewed stated File > New Wallet > New or Imported Software Wallet > entering the seed words, creating Keystore, etc. But out of curiosity I instead selected File > Import Wallet > key words > Discover Wallet, and successfully imported the BTC. My question is, Do these two operations achieve the same result? Should I have done it this way or the other way?

2. Apropos of #1 above, after I imported the wallet to Sparrow, I then checked Trust Wallet and it's still showing the same about as before. Does the BTC now live in two wallets? If I wanted to empty Trust Wallet, would I have had to create a new wallet in Sparrow first and then use the send or receive feature?

3. Apropos of #2 above, Is my Trust Wallet seed phrase secure enough (since it was created while online), or should I redo it by creating a new wallet in Sparrow Wallet app offline and then sending the BTC from Trust Wallet to Sparrow Wallet?

Thanks in advance!
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