Quote from: apetersson on March 25, 2015, 08:52:09 PM

Quote from: PapaStalin on March 25, 2015, 06:55:09 PM

hello everyone.

i was just wondering what are my options for HD wallet recovery if for some reason mycelium isn't available as an app download in the future?
not very likely perhaps, but i would feel more confident knowing i can restore my wallet in some other app as an emergency measure.

btw, to the mycelium developers, i really enjoy your app a lot. find it most user-friendly for a newb like myself.
cheers.

i am pretty certain multibit HD is fully compatible with the mycelium seeds, and it uses a completely different implementation stack and infrastructure. so you will be able to use it, even if mycelium servers completely vanish.

using the trezor together with mytrezor.com is another option with another distinct stack.

MultiBit HD isn't (yet) compatible with Mycelium seeds, but it will be once MultiBit HD Beta 8 is released.

Another option (which works today) is exporting an account's master private key (its "xprv"), which can then be imported into Electrum 2.x (just paste it into the Restore Wallet dialog). The two downsides here are that the seed is not compatible with Electrum (so you'll need to keep your xprv somewhere safe as a backup), and that you'd need to export each Mycelium account individually to a separate Electrum wallet file (if you have more than one account set up, that is).

(More details on wallet interoperability is available here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1000544.0)