Post
Topic
Board Electrum
seed that is NOT BIP39 will not be imported
by
frha
on 18/08/2017, 07:25:07 UTC
Hi.

I used BitcoinJ as a base for my wallet, and have a 12-word seed. I have used the wallet a couple of years, and it still works for BTC.
If I manually direkt the client to a Cash-node, I also can see my BCH balance in that wallet, but it has no support for the changed difficulty-regime in Cash-chain, and I cannot sign transaction in Cash-chain.

Therefore I wantet to try Electrum Cash as a wallet for accessing my Cash...
When I start up, and tries to import my seed, it does not seem to recognise my 12 words unless I check for BIP39. But ofc, when recovering witn BIP39 my balance does not show up, since the keys in BitcoinJ is not BIP39.

Why is the button to continue disabled when I don't check BIP39 ?  And how should I import my old wallet from BitcoinJ ?

Note - when using BitcoinJ, I can use any 12 words I want as seed, and it creates a wallet that is useable...  So why can I not just enter an 12 words and import as non-BIP39-seed using Electrum Cash ?