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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Changing wallet, keeping address
by
PolarPoint
on 08/03/2015, 10:26:59 UTC
Right now I'm using Bitcoin core and I want to use Electrum. What this procedure work with this combination?

This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons.

I will not dispute anything Danny puts forward. He is right about not being able to restore bitcoin core addresses with electrum seeds.

But I do think it is desirable to import the bitcoin core address private keys into electrum because you never know when you will receive coins into the old addresses. I would keep the keys of those old addresses in electrum and not use them. Only delete them in the future when I am 100% sure.