I would like to sweep bitcoin from mycelium to electrum.
I put in my 12 word private key. Can't find information if I'm suppose to put it with spaces in a row or one at a time in a line.
examples: word1 word2 word 3
or
word1
word2
word3
anyways, sweep button never lights up. I tried looking around, not having any luck. Saw something about how it used to not support that kind of private key but that later versions should.
You are misunderstanding this I think.
I'll break it down a bit for you:
Your private keys are large numbers that hold your bitcoins.
Your Seeds are massive numberst that can be used to generate your private keys using algorithms.
What you want to do is follow this:
1. Click "File" at the top
2. Click "New/Restore"
3. Enter a name for your new wallet (this can be anything) and continue.
4. Paste in your seed words (as if they were a sentence - but without any puntucation). Select options and tick Bip39. Then hti OK and Next.
5. Put in the derivation path (I think it's m/0'/0, m/44'/0'/0' or m/44'/0'/0'/0 but I might be wrong).
6. Then you have your coins avaliabe in your wallet (if not, the derivation path is probably wrong).
I was able to figure out my extended private key, but when trying to sweep it into electrum it is still greyed out.
It won't take a master private key either I don't think.