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Recovering 'missing' taproot (?) Satoshi
by
Bude Stacks
on 04/12/2022, 22:04:09 UTC
I have a strange situation maybe someone here can help me out with... or at least tell me it's a non-fixable issue.

Being super excited about Taproot, I created a Taproot account from my existing Trezor wallet/device.  Since I don't use my Trezor day-to-day, just for cold storage, I added it as a watch-only wallet to BlueWallet (as I did with my primary SegWit account) to generate receive addresses on the go while preventing the ability to send -- without extra steps.

Then off I went, generating receive address on BlueWallet and sending satoshi into it for storage.  Life was good.

Fast forward to last month, when I booted up my Trezor to do an update check and overall review.

I almost cr@ped myself when I saw my Taproot account was empty on the Trezor. 

After doing a ton of research and asking around to my Bitcoin techie network, I came across some strange info -- the BlueWallet "taproot" account appears to be using the derivation M/44' ... not M/86' as one would expect for a Taproot wallet.

What in the world did I do wrong, and how to I recover these 'missing' satoshi that I believe are still tied to my private key but not visible in Trezor nor sendable in BlueWallet?

Notes:
  • BlueWallet shows a balance & no sent tx - I don't think the bitcoin was 'stolen' in any way
  • Recieve addresses start with "1" on the BlueWallet taproot wallet I imported
  • Tried using Coinomi with custom derivation paths to no avail.  My Segwit satoshi were found but not these 'taproot' satoshi

Any/all advice or guidance on getting access to my taproot satoshi is greatly appreciated.  Not sure where else I can turn for help.

Thanks