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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Verify if seed is working
by
francuss
on 16/07/2023, 01:34:29 UTC
You can your transactions ID in transaction history of your address. Any block explorer should display that.
I found a page where it tells that this transaction has 80 confirmations and is confirmed.
Either you are importing a wrong seed phrase or the addresses you are looking for had been generated on an uncommon derivation path.
Provided that you are generating the addresses on the same derivation path, your seed phrase should generate the same addresses with the same order.
I used the same settings for both Electrum wallets, with the exception that the first "hot" is a hardware wallet, so it does not have a private key and the second "cold" is a seed imported wallet and so it has a private key.  This may involve the difference mentioned by @franky1, and for that the addresses may be different. At least that is what I understood from @franky1 post.
Create a new wallet and select "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys" and enter your address.
Take note that with importing your address, you create a watch-only wallet and you won't be able to spend your fund from that. A watch-only wallet is used for checking transaction history and creating unsigned transaction.
yes, thanks, I checked this, but this way I understand you create a new wallet, you are not importing the address that received the sats into the hot wallet with the same seed.
If you want the fund to be spendable, you should import you private key, instead.
I just wanted a verification that the seed works without a hardware wallet. But I understand that this verification is just impossible without exposing the private key.