blockchain.info sub wallets?

[1dullgeek]

Hi,

I use blockchain.info and I've been able to create what I think of as "sub wallets" within the main wallet. The idea being that I might store different bitcoin used for different purposes in each subwallet and then be able to track balances for each purpose.

I also use the seed from blockchain.info in a desktop wallet (Electrum) in the event that blockhain.info has some availability problem. (Yes I know there's a risk doing this.)

The problem is that the "sub wallet" addresses don't appear to be showing up in Electrum. And as a consequence Electrum only has the balance of the default blockchain.info wallet.

Does anyone know what these "sub wallets" are and how I would make sure that they show up in Electrum?

I get to them by going here: https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/settings/addresses

Thanks.

[BitcoinSupremo]

Hi,

I use blockchain.info and I've been able to create what I think of as "sub wallets" within the main wallet. The idea being that I might store different bitcoin used for different purposes in each subwallet and then be able to track balances for each purpose.

I also use the seed from blockchain.info in a desktop wallet (Electrum) in the event that blockhain.info has some availability problem. (Yes I know there's a risk doing this.)

The problem is that the "sub wallet" addresses don't appear to be showing up in Electrum. And as a consequence Electrum only has the balance of the default blockchain.info wallet.

Does anyone know what these "sub wallets" are and how I would make sure that they show up in Electrum?

I get to them by going here: https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/settings/addresses

Thanks.

Best would be if you move totally to Electrum. Create the main wallet at Electrum and name it whatever you like, by default it's called "default_wallet". You can then create as many wallets as you like in Electrum and rename them with the purpose you will use them for example you can call the second wallet "Gambling" and this wallet will only be used for gambling. You can go on and create as many wallets as you like in Electrum and they are not "subwallets" but real wallets.

Make sure you save every wallet SEED as every single wallet has it's own SEED and your problem is solved without the need of blockchain.info service.

Just move all your bitcoins from your subwallets of blockchain to the corresponding wallet in Electrum. Easy as 1,2,3.

[1dullgeek]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that doesn't really answer the question. I've already copied my seed into Electrum. That is the only seed available in the wallet that I can find. But blockchain allows me to create these other "addresses" that do not appear to be part of the seed.

I can't figure out how to backup those other "sub wallets". There's only one seed available.

What I might just have to do is create several Electrum wallets and then send the bitcoin to those wallets. But then that creates a different problem. I like the simplicity of using Blockchain.info. I like that it's available to me anywhere, anytime. But I also want the ability to transact if blockchain is down or they decide that I'm not compliant with their TOS.  So I have Electrum where I have complete control of my keys w/o having to rely on Blockchain.

The problem is that I don't understand what these things are in blockchain. These other addresses appear to be part of blockchain's HD wallet. But when I use the seed in Electrum it doesn't see them.

What I may have to do to get the exact functionality I want is create full blockchain wallets for each and not use these sub-wallets. And then export the seed from the full wallet into seperate Electrum wallets.

I guess I was hoping that someone here better understood what these things are.

[1dullgeek]

I think I figured out what these are. They're available via setting a non-default BIP44 account numbers. So account number = 0 is the default wallet.
Account number = 1 is the first sub-wallet, 2 is the 2nd sub-wallet, etc.

So to import these sub wallets into Electrum I end up one electrum wallet for every "sub wallet" that I have on blockchain.info.