Hi,

I have a question regarding transition to HD wallets in Electrum
What user experience is going to look like? Say in 3 years from now your user is downloading Electrum client and tries to enter Electrum 1.9 seed in it.

What would happen?

When is the planed cut-off date? I.e. you would probably have "New" and "Old" versions of Electrum published on your website for a while along with instructions for non tech savvy. How long is that "while" going to be?


Another question: I was checking out carbonwallet.com, that is a BUGGY web version of electrum wallet. I have fixed a bug there which allowed users to enter arbitrary words, and working on another bug which seems to be related to the generation of change addresses (they do not show up in carbon).

Is there anything special with how you are generating change addresses in 1.9? Are they any different from normal addresses? Where I can read about this?

P.S. I'm not a developer of carbonwallet and discourage anyone from using it. I have found 2 major bugs in the first day of using it. I'm just fixing them for fun and self education.