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Re: Trying to recover bitcoin from a legacy address given out by a trezor circa 2017
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LoyceV
on 10/10/2021, 11:15:34 UTC
I also created a "Watching only wallet" in electrum and put the address in it.  Of course Electrum shows the bitcoin on the address.  I realize this is nothing earth shaking.  But wondered if I did derive the private key from the seed if I could "add" that to the watching only wallet to enable me to send the bitcoin out of it?  I might experiment with a small amount of bitcoin of my own.  Create a wallet.  Move a small amount of bitcoin to it.  Then open a watching only wallet.  Create a private key from the mnemonic that I got from the first wallet and see if I could send coin out of my watching only wallet with that key?  I'll let you know how the experiment goes.
You can safe yourself the time: you can only send Bitcoin when the private key corresponds to the address, not by adding any other private key to the same watch-only wallet. Bitcoin would be worthless if that would be possible.