How to regain Electrum-wallet from seed without Electrum?

[meatsim]

In the hypothetical case that I store my bitcoins in an Electrum wallet and then go to sleep for a decade, wake up again and find that there is no more Electrum in existence (also deleted/nonfunctional on my computer). The only thing I have is my seed. How can I then get access to my bitcoins?

[pooya87]

https://brainwallet.github.io/#chains
paste your seed in the Paper Backup section, select electrum and input number of Primary Addresses and change addresses, it will generate your addresses and private keys.

do it at your own risk though i have no idea how safe it is. it is open source i think you can check it out

[Q7]

Though I haven't done it myself, just to be safe, you can always export your private keys into other Bitcoin clients. The function is available in the program main menu.

[meatsim]

Thanks, that's useful. I guess simply printing a paper wallet and storing it somewhere is also a good secondary backup in addition to memorizing the seed.

[jonald_fyookball]

I wrote a script to do that.

See here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=612143.0