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Re: any way of deriving legacy private key from a segwit address for forked coins?
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RealMachasm
on 07/02/2018, 21:24:20 UTC
Segwit addresses are not derived from legacy addresses. However a legacy address can be derived from a private key for a segwit address, and vice versa. Private keys are just numbers and are not locked to a specific type of address that they should be used to create.

Note that Electrum uses a special format for private keys in order to indicate what type of address they should be used for. You will need to export those private keys and convert them into a format that your forked coin's wallet can understand.
Thank you appreciate your insight.
So the question is, do you know how to convert the exported Electrum key?