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Re: How do you recover BTC from a multi-signature wallet? [BTC TIP$ FOR HELP]
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Cellrich
on 07/02/2024, 15:00:46 UTC
Thanks for the reply!

I already use many crypto wallets; Electrum multi-sig being one of them, Guard is just another one I use and sadly having a problem with it currently.

Once you login to the Guarda App, and go to settings of your BTC Multisig wallet, and click on PRIVATE KEY, you are given a Mnemonic AND a PrivateKey which looks like a lite coin address almost. I'll create a fake one so you can see an example of the key I can see:

L98km2ZaKaoXieoKK9]Hj8850jDjnEZykOwwhx092j8iL9zz

Unfortunately there's no manual exports of a transaction like you can on Electrum, hence I cannot manually export it and give it to my co-signer for him to load and sign off.

That is a valid private key if the backup private key from Guarda starts at L which is a compressed WIF private key.
But I think even if you imported this to Electrum you can't find funds, have you tried it?

Maybe the Mnemonic seed you can use to recover the multisig wallet into Electrum but it requires a co-signer key or seed to recover your wallet from Guarda. I don't know if this will work but you can try if the Guarda gives you the Mnemonic seed phrase after export.


Yes we've established its a valid private key - for me and my partner.
Later on today I will check with my partner if we have the same, or different private keys.
I would assume it would be different.

So, if me and my partner (co-signer) both have our private keys, from this point what exactly would we need to do to recover said crypto?
Of course, its much simpler if it wasn't multi-signature as from this point I'd just use my own private key and get it onto electrum, but the multi-sig makes it more confusing in terms of the steps to take.

We'll try what you said above (won't be for a couple of hours as he's asleep currently) and update you here, thanks!