Migration from Multibit HD to Electrum

[sidkovd]

Hello, yesterday i have crashed Multibit HD.
Guys from another thread helps me with recovery and saving my money.

I download Electrum for Mac OS. Electrum found wallet (i think from Multibit) and with NO recovery words opened wallet interface (and it opend wallet with 2FA). But i did not pay attention to it(

After that i sweeped private keys which i found with https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/ . As result i have money on my bitcoin wallet with 2FA, which i don`t know(

After that i  found wallet with money, and export private keys from Electrum.. ( http://prntscr.com/fd1xew ) Create new wallet on another PC and tried to sweep private key of this wallet... but i found error -> http://prntscr.com/fd1xrq wallet balance https://blockchain.info/address/3DPGHQUeP3PYsxtD5YsVnLazWDwB4m5UhV

As result
I have:
18 secret words from multibit,
Password from first wallet with 2FA (same as Multibit when i run Electrum first time)
Money on BTC, that i can`t spend
Private key from BTC adress with money


What should i do?

[nachius]

Unfortunately with the current verisons of Electrum, you cannot import private keys into Electrum, only sweep. This is fair enough, because the addresses would not have their private keys saved along with your backup seed anyways.

The best option is to create a brand new Electrum wallet using your 18 words. I've PM'd you if you need help doing this. The easy way out is to simply send your Bitcoins over, rather than migrating. This works if you don't care about the addresses you previously used.

[LoyceV]

Do I understand correctly that all your Bitcoins are on the addresses to which you hold the private keys? In that case, forget all your wallets, and start over.

On PC1:
Make a new Electrum wallet and choose the option so that you can import all private keys. You should see your total balance now.

On PC2:
Since you're using 2 PCs, it's easiest to continue there: create a "normal" new Electrum wallet, for which you write down the recovery seed (a list of words). After that, send the entire balance from Electrum on PC1 to PC2. You're ready now!

[pooya87]

Unfortunately with the current verisons of Electrum, you cannot import private keys into Electrum, only sweep. ~

you actually can. what you can't do is importing private keys into a wallet that was created with a seed. it is like this to prevent accidental loss since the seed will recover all the private keys apart from imported ones.

to import private keys just create a new wallet (Ctrl+N) select the first option (Standard Wallet) next and select the third option (Use Public or Private keys).
then enter a list of private keys or even a master private key (xpriv...) and use them.
for example OP can use  https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39/  to generate the xpriv and import that into electrum without needing to worry about seed differences.

[Abdussamad]

Hello, yesterday i have crashed Multibit HD.
Guys from another thread helps me with recovery and saving my money.

I download Electrum for Mac OS. Electrum found wallet (i think from Multibit) and with NO recovery words opened wallet interface (and it opend wallet with 2FA). But i did not pay attention to it(

What do you mean wallet from multibit? Electrum won't open multibit wallets. If you restored your multibit HD wallet using its seed mnemonic in electrum then it would create a new standard wallet not a 2fa wallet. How did you end up with a 2fa wallet?

[sidkovd]

why i couldn`t use this private key, if i want it to sweep into new wallet?

Private key scr - http://prntscr.com/fdf18m
Error scr - https://prnt.sc/fd1f55

[Abdussamad]

why i couldn`t use this private key, if i want it to sweep into new wallet?

Private key scr - http://prntscr.com/fdf18m
Error scr - https://prnt.sc/fd1f55

Can you please answer the question in the my post above?

To answer your question you can't use this private key because in 2fa wallets there is more than one private key behind every address. There is the private key in your wallet, the private key owned by trusted coin which is the company providing the 2fa authentication service and then there is the backup private key encoded in the seed mnemonic which was displayed during the wallet creation process and which you failed to write down. You need 2 out of the 3 private keys in order to spend your bitcoins. You only have one.