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1  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Importing seed into Electrum, no funds? on: May 31, 2023, 09:02:34 PM
Thank you @Abdussamad, @Cricktor, @nc50lc and everyone else who chimed in.
Selecting legacy (p2pkh) and manually editing the derivation path did the trick. I would have never guessed it.

Hopefully this helps whoever has the same issue in the future.
2  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Importing seed into Electrum, no funds? on: May 28, 2023, 11:24:40 AM
Alternatively, you can use iancoleman to trace the address and its corresponding private key which you can import on wallet, like Electrum to spend from.

Thank you for bringing up these methods. Unfortunately I couldn't find the funded address either.

How did you generate your seed phrase? What wallet/software did you use for that? Maybe, the address you are looking for has been generated on a different derivation path.
Did you try clicking on "Detect existing accounts"?

I generated the seed phrase around April 2021 using a Ledger Nano S that I still have access to, both mnemonic and PIN code.
I also tried to use the device import the wallet into Electrum (New wallet > Use hardware device) using all three suggested derivation paths (p2pkh, p2wkph-p2sh and p2wpkh) without any luck.

The Ledger app shows different addresses as well.

Detecting existing accounts says that no accounts were found.



To make matters more interesting, I found another funded address (let's call it A#2) I used to initially test the wallet and BTCRecover says that the seed matches this address on m/84'/0'/0'/0/1. As far as I understand, this would mean A#2 is the address subsequent to A#1 I mentioned in my OP.

How can it be? Since m/84' means Native SegWit.
3  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Importing seed into Electrum, no funds? on: May 28, 2023, 09:30:57 AM
Tried setting the gap limit to something like 5000 but still the funded address wasn't found.

But this made me think

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For addresses that start from 1, it is m/44'/0'/0' which is legacy (p2pkh)

I was under the same understanding, so why would it show up as a match on m/84'/0'/0' then? (hence I tried importing once with each path)
4  Bitcoin / Electrum / Importing seed into Electrum, no funds? on: May 28, 2023, 08:25:42 AM
Hi folks,

Currently I'm trying to gain access to an old wallet of mine of which I saved the mnemonic.

Problem is, when I try to import the words into Electrum it shows a total balance of 0 even though I know I transferred funds into one of the addresses a couple of years ago and they are still there when I check on any Blockchain explorers.

The address I'm looking for is a P2PKH (starts with "1.....").

So after trying a few things I ended up using BTCRecover (the one by 3rdIteration https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover) and it is able to find a match between my seed and the expected address.

Code:
python seedrecovery.py --addrs $MY_ADDRESS --mnemonic $MY_MNEMONIC --wallet-type bip39 --addr-limit 10

Initial seed guess has a valid checksum (0.39% chance).
Phase 1/4: up to 2 mistakes, excluding entirely different seed words.
Wallet Type: btcrseed.WalletBIP39
Using 8 worker threads
Will try 23,680 passwords, ETA 1 seconds ...
***MATCHING SEED FOUND***, Matched on Address at derivation path: m/84'/0'/0'/0/0
Search Complete

So I'm a bit confused now as to what am I missing or forgetting.
Why does BTCRecover always find a match but when I go to Electrum I can't seem to find anything?
Is it the derivation path? I tried both m/84' and m/44' to no avail.

In summary:

Expected behaviour: importing my seed should grant me access to my funds
Current behaviour: seed won't even display the expected set of addresses when imported into Ethereum
Environment:
- OS: OSX 13
- Seed: BIP39
- Wallet software: Electrum 4.4.3
- BTCRecover 1.11.0
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