On the recent version of the electrum I know there's an option to the users for having a legacy and a segwit wallet now upon checking again because I want to create a two wallet which is I want to create a legacy there's no option at all at this time I would like to ask what and when happen they remove the legacy option on electrum?
The process now becomes Create new wallet > Standard wallet > Seed phrase > Password and automatically created an address which all segwit.
Elimination of the seed type selection option and by default the resulting wallet is Segwit wallet (Bech32 address) starting from Electrum 4.1.0. For details can be seen in the release note.The process now becomes Create new wallet > Standard wallet > Seed phrase > Password and automatically created an address which all segwit.
# Release 4.1.0 - Kangaroo (March 30, 2021)
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* The wallet creation wizard no longer asks for a seed type, and
creates segwit wallets with bech32 addresses. Older seed types can
still be created with the command line.
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* The wallet creation wizard no longer asks for a seed type, and
creates segwit wallets with bech32 addresses. Older seed types can
still be created with the command line.
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To create a Legacy address, open the Console Tab (View Menu -> Show Console). Type the following command line:
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make_seed(128,"","standard")
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/electrum/commands.py#L320-L325For example:
Then create a new wallet using the seed generated through the Console. Here is an example of the results:
