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December 25, 2017, 09:56:32 AM |
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No, seeds will never expire.
Seeds are essentially random strings that are used to create private keys, so you can rebuild all addresses of your wallet with your seed alone. And since your Bitcoins are stored on blockchain, private key is everything you need to know to access them.
Afaik, Electrum seeds are not compatible with other wallets, so you can't just import them into other wallet, but this shouldn't be a big problem in case Electrum wallet will stop getting updates - it's an open source project so some other wallet might add support for Electrum seeds in the future if it will be needed, or you can use older versions of electrum to dump your private keys in WIF.
By the way, uninstalling Electrum might not necessarily mean that you have deleted your wallet, you should check the default folder of Electrum for any wallet files.
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